First Congregational Church
by Joseph Hollingsworth
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First Congregational Church
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Joseph Hollingsworth
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First Congregational Church of Los Angeles is a historic church, founded in 1867, the church is the city's oldest continuous Protestant congregation.The current building is an impressive English Gothic Revival-style designed by Los Angeles' architects James Edward Allison & David Clark Allison, the massive concrete structure was reinforced with more than 500 tons of steel. Its dominant feature is a tower soaring 157 feet and weighing 30,000 tons. There are four three-ton pinnacles at the corners of the tower rise another nineteen feet. Supported by more than 150 caissons extending up to forty-five feet into the bedrock.[4] The church is claimed to house the world's second largest church organ.
On March 15, 2002, the church was designated a Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission.
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