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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. The Sacramento Conference was added in 1898. [10] Most missionary work around the turn of the century took place in larger population centers.
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.
Mid-Wilshire: 531 Wilshire Ward Chapel: May 10, 1991: 1209 S. Manhattan Pl. Angelus Vista: Built in Art Deco – Modern style in 1929, serves as a meetinghouse for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Open Admission.
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
As young architects, Pope & Burton won design competitions for two of their better-known works, the Cardston Alberta and Laie Hawaii temples of the LDS Church. [2] Burton moved to Los Angeles, California in 1927 to set up another office in the firm with Pope.
L.D.S. Ward Building; LDS Conference Center; M. Meeting Hall (Beaver, Utah) Murray LDS Second Ward Meetinghouse; N. ... Wilshire Ward Chapel This page was last ...
The modern LDS Church does not use the cross or crucifix as a symbol of faith. Mormons generally view such symbols as emphasizing the death of Jesus rather than his life and resurrection. [43] The early LDS Church was more accepting of the symbol of the cross, but after the turn of the 20th century, an aversion to it developed in Mormon culture ...