Christian Science Reading Room

Specialties

We are the only neighborhood place where you can buy the weekly magazine edition of The Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer-​prize winning journal presenting a balanced account of world news, trends in culture, science, environment, etc. and scholarly analyses of issues.

We specialize in books, periodicals, CD’s, pamphlets and online resources for thinkers who seek a spiritual understanding of life and spiritual solutions to problems. Everyone is welcome, of whatever faith or non-​faith.

The books we carry include the Bible in different translations and languages, and our best-​seller, a book which unlocks the healing power of the Bible: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Our periodicals have contemporary examples and explanations of that power – of lives renewed and restored by Biblical insights. Our quiet study/​research area includes over 100 years of periodicals which are word-​searchable online. Read of healings of depression, addictions, relationship and employment problems, and medically diagnosed ‘incurable’ illnesses such as Alzheimer’s or MS .

Come for spiritual refreshment! You can study a weekly Bible Lesson, read the latest periodical or research spiritual solutions to problems. Parents, your children can play in the children’s corner, stocked with toys, books and puzzles.

The librarian on duty can help you find whatever you need, including names of those in the professional practice of Christian healing.

History

Established in 1962.

The Christian Science Reading Room has been serving the public, helping people of all faiths find peace (if only in just reading the newspaper) since Christian Science came to Brooklyn in the early 20^th century. It moved to this location in 1962. Reading Rooms in the Brooklyn College and Bay Ridge neighborhoods consolidated here in the early 2000’s.

Owned and operated by the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Brooklyn, it was established to fulfill the mission of the church, to, in the words of Mary Baker Eddy, «reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.» The space was designed with an open sales area divided from a quiet study area by a glass partition.

Sunday services of this church are now, as in the past, held at 11 AM at 152 Sterling Place in what is now the new Berkeley Carroll School building. Wednesday testimony meetings moved to the Reading Room in the 1990’s, held at 7:30 pm.