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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.
On February 18, 1939, 1,400 people visited the church's exhibit at the opening day of the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. This exhibit was a visitors' center portraying a reduced-size Salt Lake Tabernacle .
With a maximum capacity of about 8,000 per session, the Tabernacle consistently filled to capacity, leaving thousands of attendees listening on loudspeakers outside or via broadcast in adjacent buildings. In 2000, the LDS Church dedicated a new 21,000-seat Conference Center, which became the home of general conference.
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.
John Sjostrom and Church A&E Services 35 Operating Chicago Illinois Temple: April 1, 1981 Spencer W. Kimball: August 13, 1983 Gordon B. Hinckley: July 15 – August 3, 1985 August 9, 1985 Gordon B. Hinckley Sloping roof, six spire Wight & Co and Church A&E Services Jack D. Ward [8] 36 Operating Johannesburg South Africa Temple: 1 April 1981
The church has announced that the temple will close in 2024 for major renovations. [15] On October 1, 2011, it was announced at the church's general conference that the Provo Tabernacle, which had been burned by a fire, would be converted into the Provo City Center Temple, the second temple in Provo, Utah. [16] [17] Repurposed Temples
Mid-Wilshire: 531 Wilshire Ward Chapel: May 10, 1991: 1209 S. Manhattan Pl. Angelus Vista: Built in Art Deco – Modern style in 1929, serves as a meetinghouse for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Open Admission.
An LDS Sacrament Meeting in Utah. Sacrament meeting is the primary weekly Sunday worship service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [1]Sacrament meetings are held in the chapel of a meetinghouse by each individual ward (or branch).