About our Church.

Services were first held at Mrs. Wagner’s Tea Room on Main Street in Scottsdale. A few years later Church Services were held in Ms. Bettina Rubicon’s office Building located on Indian School Road. The existing Church edifice was built in the early nineteen sixties. Services were first held in this building in 1963.  

The beauty and functionality of the buildings design was acknowledged in 2014 when church officers were presented the Scottsdale Environmental Design Award. 

The following statement is a summary of the building’s architectural and historical significance prepared by the Scottsdale City Council June 18, 2013: 

“First Church of Christ, Scientist, Scottsdale has maintained its integrity and it possesses high artistic values that have been recognized by other architects and organizations. T. S. Montgomery was a talented local architect responsible for several noteworthy church projects in the sixties. This church is considered the work of a master by a respected architect. The architect’s use of concrete and local materials gives this place of worship a warm feeling and a human scale – quite different in character from the harsh use of concrete by architects of the Brutalist style at the time. Lastly, the architect’s creative use of precast concrete block screen walls, precast concrete roof panels, burnt adobe brick, wooden doors and copper fascia makes this church an excellent example of sixties Southwest Modern architectural style.”