Dominated by the dome of the Mother Church Extension, the Christian Science complex is the largest open public space in the Back Bay. The original Romanesque Revival church and
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First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church
1893–1894 church, Franklin J. Welch; 1903–1906 extension, Charles E. Brigham and Solon S. Beman; 1973, I. M. Pei. 175 Huntington Ave.
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