| First Church of Christ, Scientist | |
| Nrhp Type: | nhl |
| Designated Other1: | Berkeley Landmark |
| Designated Other1 Date: | December 15, 1975[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 5 |
| Location: | 2619 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California |
| Coordinates: | 37.8658°N -122.256°W |
| Built: | 1910 |
| Architect: | Bernard Ralph Maybeck |
| Architecture: | Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods) |
| Designated Nrhp Type: | December 22, 1977[2] |
| Added: | December 22, 1977 |
| Refnum: | 77000283 |
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, now also known as Christian Science Society, Berkeley, is a Christian Science church, located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People's Park, in Berkeley, in Alameda County, California.[3]
The Christian Science Society, Berkeley continues to meet in their over-100-year-old church building.[4]
The historic 1910 church was designed by renowned architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements.[5] The church is widely considered one of Maybeck's masterpieces.[6] [7]
The basic plan is that of a square or Greek cross, with two pair of great crossed trusses spanning the central space overhead. In 1929 a Sunday School addition was added to the Church.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California.[8]
In October 2005, the Friends of First Church Berkeley were awarded a prestigious federal Save America's Treasurers (SAT) Grant, for the roof replacement and seismic strengthening of the 1910 Church and much of the 1929 Sunday School addition.[9] The church received a Getty Architectural Conservation Implementation Grant in 2006, to enable the completion of the seismic strengthening of the Church and Sunday School addition.[10] In 2009 and 2010, the Friends of First Church Berkeley received University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Grants for restoring the garden setting of the church.