While the library holds the archive for the letters and manuscripts of Mary Baker Eddy, it contains other exhibits, including the Mapparium, a three-story stained-glass globe that allows visitors to stand inside a globe depicting the world of 1934.
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In 2004, the name Mapparium was registered as a U . S . trademark ( # 2861312 ) by the Board of Directors of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, for " Educational services, namely, providing an educational exhibition of the earth.
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Although there were other proposals for giant globes, and a few were constructed, it was not until 1935 that a large concave globe was recreated in the form of Chester Lindsay Churchill's Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Separate Mapparium and church tours are given Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a . m . to 4 p . m ., with a church tour also on Sunday at 11 : 30 a . m . ( The Mapparium is closed Sunday . ) Information : ( 617 ) 450-3790.
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Separate Mapparium and church tours are given Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a . m . to 4 p . m ., with a church tour also on Sunday at 11 : 30 a . m . ( The Mapparium is closed Sunday . ) Information : ( 617 ) 450-3790.
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Built in 1935 and based upon Rand McNally political maps published the previous year, the Mapparium shows the political world as it was at that time, including such long-disused labels as Italian East Africa and Siam, as well as more recently defunct political entities such as the Soviet Union.
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"People used to like to go there for a whole lot of reasons _ one was the Mapparium, and two is that they have the best restrooms in the city, and that's a major issue for tour groups, " said Norman P . James, president of Pitcairn Tours.
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A visitor returning to Back Bay in 1951 after a ten-year absence wrote " I was told the two sights above all others that visiting salesmen from the country wish to see when in Boston are the glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Harvard Square and the Mapparium at the Christian Science Church building ."
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This winter may be the last chance for a while to view the Mapparium, a stained-glass globe, 30 feet in diameter, built in the 1930s in the Publishing Society building at the Christian Science Center at Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues; the First Church of Christ, Scientist, plans to close this popular exhibit for renovations in March.
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The library, covering 75, 000 square feet, is intended to become the main tourist attraction on the Christian Science campus, providing access to the Mapparium, a 30-foot-high, walk-in, stained glass globe depicting the world in 1985 which had been attracting 250, 000 visitors a year before being closed in 1998 to allow building renovations to begin.
