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Attempts to organize Pasadena’s Jewish community occurred in 1907 and in 1912. Temple B’nai Israel of Pasadena was incorporated in 1921. An initial home for the congregation was completed in 1923. In 1945, the congregation purchased the Mission Revival-style building on North Altadena Drive.
Scottish Rite Cathedral in Pasadena, California was built in 1925 in a Moderne and/or Zig Zag Moderne style.. Architecturally significant in greater Los Angeles as a pre-PWA Classical Moderne building with distinctive decorative guardian sphinxes, [1] the Scottish Rite Cathedral is associated strongly with the social history of Pasadena [citation needed], in particular with the Scottish Rite ...
Leaders of The Theosophical Society Pasadena have included Gottfried de Purucker, 1929–42; Arthur L. Conger, 1945-51; James A. Long (1951-1971); Grace Knoche (1971-2006); and Randell Grubb (since 2006). The Theosophical Society of Pasadena devotes the majority of their time in the furthering of the realization of the Divine Wisdom.
A rainbow flag was burned at a Buddhist temple in Pasadena, and police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. 'A direct act of hate': Rainbow flag burned at Buddhist temple in ...
The Los Angeles Temple as includes two 30-foot (9 m) pools on each side of the connected side buildings. The Los Angeles Temple features murals on the walls of its progressive-style ordinance rooms, including the celestial room. The only other temples with celestial room murals are the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple and the first New Zealand Temple.
The Odd Fellows Temple in Pasadena, California is a historic building that was built in 1933 at 175 N. Los Robles Ave. The temple served as a meeting place for Odd Fellow Lodge No. 324, the Pasadena branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows established in 1885.
The founder of the group, Fredrick McLaren Charles Adams II, experienced an ecstatic religious conversion in 1956 when he became viscerally certain of the primacy of the Goddess. Among many other intellectuals with whom he corresponded and exchanged ideas, Adams met and was deeply influenced by Robert Graves and his book The White Goddess .
Shiv Durga Temple of Bay Area is a Hindu temple in Santa Clara, California that serves the Hindu population of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] The temple opened in December 2012. The main deity of the temple is Goddess Durga. The temple also has idols of other deities such as Lord Ganesha, Sai Baba, Shiva Linga and Radha Krishna. The temple is ...