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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 LDS Church today, temples serve two main purposes: (1) temples are locations in which Latter-day Saints holding a temple recommend can perform ordinances on behalf of themselves and their deceased ancestors, and (2) temples are considered to be a house of holiness where members can go to commune with God and receive personal revelation. [16]
Dramatizes the conflict a young LDS woman faces in trying to decide if she will marry in the temple or outside of the temple. Filmed in California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Pioneers in Petticoats: 1969 44 min. Young women form the Young Women's Retrenchment Society as resistance against worldly trends. Starring Gordon Jump.
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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.
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The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.