National City Christian Church

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National City Christian Church is on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C. It is a national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), often abbreviated as the Disciples of Christ or Christian Church, a denomination of Christian Restorationism that grew out of the Restoration Movement founded by Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell of Pennsylvania and West Virginia (then Virginia) and Barton W. Stone of Kentucky.

This church building was designed by John Russell Pope and opened in 1930.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, regularly attended National City Christian Church during his time as President (but whose family, however, had been staunchly Baptist and whose wife Lady Bird Johnson was a devoted Episcopalian) and his State funeral was here in 1973.

James Garfield, 20th President of the United States was a member of this congregation in a previous building.