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The Mother Church and reflecting pool, Christian Science Center, Boston.
Christian Science was founded in the United States in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy.12
Eddy, a Christian religious reformer, also established the denomination's Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. She authored the definitive text of the religion's teachings, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which was first published in 1875.31