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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.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a tabernacle is a multipurpose religious building, used for church services and conferences, and as community centers. Tabernacles were typically built as endeavors of multiple congregations (termed wards or branches ), usually at the stake level.
After the tabernacle was replaced by a new stake center in 1948, the tabernacle fell into disuse. In 1984, the church announced the tabernacle's closure due to "public safety reasons". A petition was formed to save the tabernacle building and in 1994, the church decided to retrofit it into a temple. The temple was completed in 1997. [14]
Cumorah, also known as Mormon Hill, [5] [6] [7] Gold Bible Hill, [8] [9] and Inspiration Point, [5] is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, [10] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.
The main chapel within the tabernacle seats 2,400 and the 140 ft tower was the second largest structure on Oahu at the time of construction. The tabernacle was completed at a cost of $275,000 and was dedicated on August 17, 1941 by McKay, who specifically prayed that it would be protected in the event of a war.
The tabernacle was dedicated June 28, 1908 by Anthon H. Lund of the LDS Church's First Presidency. The Tabernacle seats approximately 800. The cost of building the tabernacle was $65,000. With the pulpit in the northwest corner and a diagonal aisle with semi-circular pews facing the pulpit, the tabernacle has a unique floor plan for LDS ...
Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.82% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of North Carolinans self-identify themselves most closely with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [3] The LDS Church is the 8th largest denomination in North Carolina. [4]
A meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palm Desert, California. List of LDS Church adherents in each county as of 2010 according to the Association of Religion Data Archives: [24] Note: Each county adherent count reflects meetinghouse location of congregation and not by location of residence. Census count reflects ...