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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.
Wilshire Ward Chapel, Los Angeles The Los Angeles Branch was created on March 21, 1895. [ 9 ] In 1896, the Northern California and Southern California conferences were organized.
According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, less than 1% of Michiganders self-identify themselves most closely with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [4] The LDS Church is the 13th largest denomination in Michigan. [5] Today there are more than 45,000 church members in the state in nearly 100 congregations.
The most notable use for meetinghouses is the weekly worship service known as sacrament meeting.Every Sunday, members of the LDS Church meet to partake of the sacrament (equivalent to eucharist or communion in other Christian services), listen to sermons by members of the congregation, sing congregational hymns, and hear announcements for upcoming events.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), an area is an administrative unit that typically is composed of multiple stakes and missions. These areas are the primary church administrative unit between individual stakes or missions and the church as a whole.
A meetinghouse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the place where weekly worship services are held on Sunday. They are distinct from temples and tabernacles . Subcategories
Jack D. Ward [7] 36 Operating Johannesburg South Africa Temple: 1 April 1981 Spencer W. Kimball: 27 November 1982 Marvin J. Ashton: 20 July – 10 August 1985 24 August 1985 Gordon B. Hinckley: Sloping roof, six-spire Church A&E Services and Halford & Halford 37 Operating Seoul Korea Temple: 1 April 1981 Spencer W. Kimball: 9 May 1983 Marvin J ...
At that time, there were some 14 branches (small congregations) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Boston area. Eleven years prior, the first missionaries for the Church arrived in Boston to organize congregations. Church President Joseph Smith passed through Boston on his way to Washington, D.C., in 1839. After President ...