The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1912, is a historic
Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally know ...
church edifice located at 1366 South Alvarado Street in
Pico-Union, Los Angeles
Pico-Union is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. The name "Pico-Union" refers to the neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Union Avenue. Located immediately west of Downtown Los Angeles, it is home ...
,
California
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.
The former church is a Historic district
contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
in the
Alvarado Terrace Historic District
Alvarado Terrace Historic District is a designated historic district in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles, California. It is located southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, along Alvarado Terrace between Pico Boulevard and Alvarado Street.
Six ...
, which was added on May 17, 1984, to the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
It is also a
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites which have been designated by the Los Angeles, California, Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.
History
The Historic-Cult ...
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History
The First Church of Christ, Scientist was designed by noted Los Angeles architect,
Elmer Grey
Elmer Grey, FAIA (April 29, 1872 – November 14, 1963) was an American architect and artist based in Pasadena, California. Grey designed many noted landmarks in Southern California, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Huntington Art Gal ...
in a mixture of
Beaux Arts—
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
—
Spanish Romanesque Revival styles.
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The church building was sold in 1972 and was used as a
synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
for a time. It then become the Los Angeles branch of the ill-fated
Disciples of Christ
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th ...
church, known as the
Peoples Temple
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978. Founded in Indianapolis, Ind ...
, led by the Reverend
Jim Jones
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", ...
. First Church of Christ, Scientist, is no longer listed in the ''Christian Science Journal''.
It is now a Spanish-speaking
Seventh-day Adventist
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventism, Adventist Protestantism, Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the Names of the days of the week#Numbered days of the week, seventh day of the ...
church called ''Iglesia Adventista Central''.
Big Orange Landmarks page on the church
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See also
* Second Church of Christ, Scientist
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*First Church of Christ, Scientist (disambiguation) The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is the administrative headquarters and mother church of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
First Church of Christ, Scientist may also refer to:
Australia
* A church in Bowral ...
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Churches in Los Angeles
Former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings in California
Churches completed in 1912
1912 in California
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
Historic district contributing properties in California
Elmer Grey church buildings
Beaux-Arts architecture in California
Italianate architecture in California
Romanesque Revival church buildings in California
Pico-Union, Los Angeles
1912 establishments in California
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Italianate church buildings in the United States
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