University Cathedral
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The Los Angeles University Cathedral stands at 933 South Broadway between 9th and Olympic, in the heart of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was originally a movie palace, designed by the architect C. Howard Crane of the firm Walker & Percy Eisen, closely supervised by Mary Pickford.
Construction was completed in 1927. The theatre was the first of many constructed by United Artists Corporation and served as the first major preview house located in Los Angeles rather than in New York City. The building was the tallest privately owned structure in Los Angeles until 1956. Its style is Spanish Gothic, patterned after a cathedral in Segovia, Spain.
Meticulously restored and maintained by the church of Dr. Eugene Scott in 1986, a designated historic monument in itself, with the historic monument "Jesus Saves" sign (originally from The Church of the Open Door) on its roof, the Cathedral houses the largest collection of the history of the English Bible — nearly 70 "Stations of the Book" on four levels of the Cathedral.
