In the autumn of 1924, faithful students of Christian Science in Sarasota, Florida, having held informal services for several years, organized a Christian Science Society which was formally recognized by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1927, this Society became First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sarasota, Florida. Their church home at 2100 Main Street, was erected in 1930. The building next door, erected in 1961 and remodeled in 2014 serves as the public Reading Room and Church Board Office.

This church is designed "to commemorate the word and works of Christ Jesus and to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.”

Tenets of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist

  • 1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.

  • 2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.

  • 3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.

  • 4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

  • 5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.

  • 6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

  • From The Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy, pg. 15