Art of Living Center (former Second Church of Christ, Scientist) (Los Angeles, California)

 church, historic landmark, Christian Science Reading Room

948 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 946 West Adams Boulevard is an historic structure that on April 2, 1987, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building was designed by Alfred Rosenheim (who also designed the Cameo [1910] and Globe [1913] theatres on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles) and built 1910 in the West Adams district. As of 2008, the entire church property, along with the adjoining Christian Science Reading Room, have been closed down, locked up, and put up for sale at the current asking price of $8 million.

The North University Park and Exposition Park Walking Tour brochure describes the architecture of the church as follows: "this Italian Renaissance-style church, with its six magnificent Corinthian columns, evokes the grandeur of the Pantheon. Engineer Albert C. Martin constructed the church's huge copper-clad dome, then the world's largest poured concrete dome. Study the rich details of the exterior decorations, made of white terra cotta ornamentation." The columns are forty feet tall, and the dome, which is seventy feet in diameter, was constructed through a complex design of concrete girders and steel trusses. The church seats more than 1000.

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