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The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972. Tracing its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention ...
Mosaic is a multi-site Christian megachurch based in Los Angeles, California, and is currently led by Erwin McManus. [2] The church had been affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, [3] but today, it describes itself as non-denominational. [1]
Baptists practice believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper (communion) as the ordinances instituted in Scripture (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26). [5] [additional citation(s) needed] Most Baptists call them "ordinances" (meaning "obedience to a command that Christ has given us") [6] [7] instead of "sacraments" (activities God uses to impart salvation or a means of grace to the participant).
In 2011. The Bethlehem Baptist Church in Los Angeles was designed by architect R.M. Schindler, and built in 1944.Located in the Central-Alameda district of Los Angeles. [1] on the corner of Compton Avenue and 49th Street, [2] it is the only example of a church designed by Schindler, and "the lone example of Modernist architecture to cross Los Angeles economic and racial boundaries in the era ...
On May 13, 1885, Second Baptist Church, the first African-American Baptist Church in Southern California, was organized in Los Angeles. Second Baptist Church was born in the minds and hearts of early African-American Baptists in Los Angeles who felt the need to have their own church where the free expression of worship in the black idiom could ...
[4] This was the vision and name she gave at Foursquare Church, founded in January 1923 in Los Angeles, during the dedication of the Angelus Temple in Echo Park, seating 5,300 people. [5] [6] Despite some affinities with Pentecostals, her beliefs are interdenominational. [7] The attendance has become a megachurch with 10,000 people. [8]
For list of Roman Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, see: Our Lady of the Angels, for central and West Los Angeles; San Fernando, covering the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys. San Gabriel, for East Los Angeles the San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona Valley. San Pedro, for Long Beach and southern Los Angeles County.
These include the Tenrikyo Junior Church of America, the Konko Church, and the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple; all designed by Yos Hirose. The Japanese Baptist Church was built by the Los Angeles City Baptist Missionary Society. [19] A hospital, also designed by Hirose, opened in 1929 to serve the Japanese American community. [20]