On January 1, 1923, at 2:15 p.m., Aimee Semple McPherson opened the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple to the public. Thousands of people streamed into the domed concrete building across from Los Angeles' Echo ...
On a May afternoon in Los Angeles in 1926, one of the most powerful women in American history waded into the ocean and vanished. Before she walked down to the water’s edge that day, Aimee had been on ...
To the editor: Thanks to Patt Morrison for her beautifully written piece on the landmarks of Los Angeles that turn 100 this year, including Angelus Temple. My paternal grandparents, poor and ...
Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of institutional ...
ECHO PARK (CBSLA.com) — Wednesday night, on the field, he beat the Giants. Thursday night, off the field, Dodgers hurler Clayton Kershaw showed why -- when it comes to giving -- he is something of a ...
Los Angeles, haven of the spiritually restless, has a mystery. Its famed and wealthy evangelist, builder and owner of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, has disappeared. No ...
Lights burned all night last week in the decorative Malibu Beach cottage of soul-saving Aimee Semple McPherson. In Los Angeles, 15 mi. away, squads of the faithful—praying in two-hour shifts—sent ...
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The Dream Center, the nonprofit of the Pentecostal megachurch Angelus Temple, doesn’t appear to plan on stopping. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Just over a month after the Dream Center began ...
Eastsider LA sounds worried about the scale and size of a 75-unit senior apartment complex planned on Glendale Blvd, across from Echo Park Lake and near the new humongous 544-space Angelus Temple ...