Angelus Temple

Angelus Temple is a Pentecostal megachurch in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, United States.

"[2] McPherson hired Brook Hawkins from Winter Construction Company,[3] the architect of the Culver Hotel, the Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse.

The temple is considered to be the first megachurch built in the United States, and its 125-foot-wide dome was the largest in North America.

[11] The former Queen of Angels Hospital is the base of operations for the Dream Center, an organization who offers a food bank, clothing and assistance programs for disaster victims, victims of domestic violence, drug addiction and trafficking in human beings and prisoners.

[12][13] In 2001, Pastor Matthew Barnett and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel united the Dream Center with Angelus Temple.

According to the United States Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index, Angelus Temple's construction would cost $3,245,964 in 2014.

[17] Angelus Temple was the largest construction of its time in North America, rising "125 feet from the main floor".

The structure's main architectural feature is its large, unsupported concrete dome coated with a mixture of ground abalone shells.

The dome's interior was painted azure blue, with fleecy clouds, a reminder to "work while it's day" and "to look for His coming".

Congregation in 1942
McPherson prepares Christmas baskets, 1935.
Building in Los Angeles