Title supplied by cataloger. Located in the heart of East Los Angeles, stands a 100-year-old cultural landmark that at one time was home to a Jewish synagogue. Since that time, the cultural center known as "Casa Del Mexicano", has reached out to the nearby community and provided much needed help to lower middle class families in need of food, shelter, establishing residency, and citizenship. The Casa Del Mexicano also functions as an auditorium, dance hall that is rented out for events, and there are also plays that are performed during holidays. A plaque says it was built in 1904 as the Euclid Heights Methodist Church, though some accounts say it eventually became a synagogue, catering to the neighborhood's once-large Jewish community. Casa Del Mexicano is located at 2900 Calle Pedro Infante and Euclid, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood.
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image
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1 photographic print :color ;23 x 34 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Casa Del Mexicano (Los Angeles, Calif.) Community centers--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles) Church buildings--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles) Synagogues--California--Los Angeles Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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