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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]
A Los Angeles-area church was destroyed in a massive fire early Sunday, just hours before a celebration that was set to include a Christmas play and a toy giveaway. Firefighters arrived at Victory ...
The Union Rescue Mission, commonly abbreviated as the URM, is a Christian homeless shelter in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest in the city [1] and the largest private homeless shelter in the United States. [2] The organization behind the URM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was established in 1891.
It safely withstood one test, in October 2019, when a brush fire started along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center's access road, and burned 745 acres (3 square km), earning the name the Getty Fire.
A senior Los Angeles city employee was badly mauled by a dog Friday at a shelter in San Pedro, an incident that follows growing concern about overcrowded and unhealthy conditions for dogs at the ...