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Title
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1940
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
This is the seat of one of the most highly respected Reform congregations, founded in 1862 as Congregation B'nai B'rith. Designed in the Byzantine Revival style by architects A.M. Edelman, S. Tilden Norton, and David C. Allison, this Temple was dedicated in 1929. Its richly ornamental interior features black marble, gold inlay, fine mosaics, rare woods, and Biblically-themed murals created by art director Hugo Ballin. The Temple was entered in the United States Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, located at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081623
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (4269) 4x5; L.A.-Synagogues-Wilshire Boulevard Temple
CARL0000080562
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111783
Subject
Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Domes--California--Los Angeles
Byzantine revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Synagogues--California--Los Angeles
Edelman, A.M
Norton, S. Tilden
Allison, David C
Ballin, Hugo,1879-1956
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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