This was a research question we received. Here’s what we found:
The first informal group of Christian Scientists was not formed in Nigeria until 1946, but Nigerians had come in contact with Christian Science before 1930. As early as 1933 Christian Science literature was being sent to the country by The Mother Church. The group that formed in 1946 in Lagos had about 32 members but disbanded after many of them, mostly civil servants, had been transferred to other towns in the country.
The group that would become the Christian Science Society in Lagos informally met for the first time in 1950. They started meeting in a room on Faneye Street in Yaba and later moved to a schoolroom on Akinwunmi Street. Later the group moved again to a different schoolroom in the area. The Society was first listed in The Christian Science Journal in March 1964. Their address at that time was 359 Herbert Macaulay Street, Yaba. The Reading Room was located at 75 Igbosere Road.
The first Christian Science lecture occurred in approximately 1955 and was given by Neil H. Bowles. An informal group—the second in Nigeria—of Christian Scientists was formed in Ibadan in 1956.
