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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.
Angelus Temple is a Pentecostal megachurch in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923, it is considered the first U.S. megachurch. Today, it is affiliated with the Foursquare Church and led by senior pastor Matthew Barnett .
Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese: 佛光山西來寺; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Xīlái Sì) is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California. The name Hsi Lai means "coming west". Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan. It is the order's first ...
The Thien Hau Temple [1] is a Chinese temple located in Los Angeles's Chinatown in California, dedicated to the ocean goddess Mazu. It is one of the more popular areas for worship and tourism among Asian residents in the Los Angeles area .
By the mid-1980s, between 200-300 Sikhs attended Sunday services at the temple, and in 1986, the temple was demolished to make way for a larger one. [ 5 ] The new, larger temple opened in 1996, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with its dedication ceremony presided over by "the supreme and highest spiritual and temporal authority of the Sikh religion visiting from ...
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In 1922, a few years after attending the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Rev. Hosen Isobe established the Zenshuji Soto Mission [3] in a Los Angeles apartment. Anti-immigration laws at that time made it extremely difficult for people of Japanese descent to purchase land in the United States.
Los Angeles California Temple - the tenth operating and the second-largest temple operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. St. Louis Jain temple - a historic structure that was constructed for the 1904 St. Louis World's fairs, now standing within the Jain Center of Southern California in Los Angeles.