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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.
With the Stake Center for the Detroit Stake out on Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Hills dedicated by David O. McKay in 1959, and a later chapel built on 9 Mile Road in Southfield, Michigan just east of Telegraph Road the church began a decline in the city proper. In 1969 the Detroit Stake was split and a new Dearborn Stake was formed.
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.
People watch as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign event at 180 Church, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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 Rev. Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church in Detroit, where former President Donald Trump plans to speak on June 15, 2024.
Today, a century later, the Latter-day Saints have 43 Tarrant County area congregations, 12 chapels, and 14 meetinghouses. ... The LDS church, with 380,000 members in Texas, or 1.2 percent of the ...
1848 October – The Nauvoo Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois was destroyed in an act of arson. [1]1850 September 15 – In Spalding, England, a mob assaulted and overpowered a Church member who was guarding entry to a meetinghouse in use by fellow Latter-day Saints, compelling him inside; the mob then attacked the building and forced entry thereinto.