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The Los Angeles Temple was announced on March 23, 1937, by church president Heber J. Grant, when the church purchased 24.23 acres (98,000 m 2) from the Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company. Construction was to begin soon thereafter, but financial difficulties relating to the Great Depression and World War II delayed its construction.
The Wilshire Ward Chapel, formerly known as the Hollywood Stake Tabernacle, is a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles, California. The building is listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and on the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation registry.
Los Angeles California Temple: Operating 190,614 sq ft (17,709 m 2) 13 acres (52,609 m 2) March 11, 1956 David O. McKay: edit: 11 Hamilton New Zealand Temple: Operating 45,251 sq ft (4,204 m 2) 86 acres (348,030 m 2) April 20, 1958 David O. McKay: edit: 12 London England Temple: Operating 42,652 sq ft (3,963 m 2) 32 acres (129,499 m 2 ...
On January 21, 1923, the Los Angeles Stake became the first to be created in the state since the San Bernardino Stake had been dissolved. The Los Angeles Stake was divided on May 22, 1927 to form the Los Angeles and Hollywood stakes. On July 10, 1927, the San Francisco Stake was established. [11]
In the LDS Church, a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord and considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. Upon completion, temples are usually open to the public for a short period of time (an "open house"), and then each is dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members with a ...
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel
Founded in 1862, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles. [4] [5] The congregation's main building, with a sanctuary topped by a large Byzantine Revival dome and decorated with interior murals, was designated as a City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument in 1973 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles), informally known as the COLA or the Los Angeles Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de Los Ángeles), is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, United States.