If L.A.’s architecture is a hodgepodge of styles, its churches are great examples: A-frame, Mission, modern — it's all here.
Angelenos can be spotted a mile away in other locales, waiting for the walk sign while locals jaywalk with abandon. What’s that about? And what happens when people do jaywalk here?Like Dishman’s bowling alley as church, storefront places of worship across L.A.’s great plain were once houses, neighborhood markets, beauty salons, auto repair shops.
The old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in East Hollywood, now painted Aegean blue, is the Church of Scientology’s Pacific Area Command Base.Our original Roman Catholic cathedral, St. Vibiana’s, built in 1876 in downtown L.A., was the center of a 1996 demolition drama. The Catholic church wanted Vibiana’s taken down after the 1994 Northridge quake and was already whacking away at the cupola when the L.A. Conservancy got wind of it and stopped the wrecking crew.
Enlisting avant-garde architects was pretty radical for the time. The church’s founder, Robert Schuller, told The Times 40 years ago that “there’s a place for monuments. If the monument can be an instrument, you’ve got a winner.” The striking, domed Founder’s Church of Religious Science west of downtown L.A. is the handiwork of the renowned Black architect Paul Williams, who also donated his designs for the celebrated First African Methodist Episcopal Church — FAME — in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.
Any innovation to church architecture got some attention, and usually some criticism. I was charmed by the April 1977 headline “Parishioners Offered Living Room Comfort,” about Glendale’s new United Community Church and its “sofa-type seating for 1,450” — instead of rigid wooden pews, a setup that let parishioners look down on the minister, instead of the other way around.
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