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Title
Berendo Street Baptist Church, exterior
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Allen, Jeff
Date Created and/or Issued
2006
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photo of Berendo Street Baptist Church, located at 975 S. Berendo, shows a modern cream-color church with brown trim and brown roof. Several stairs lead to the main entrance, which displays the name of the church in large Korean letters with English words below; a simple, thin red cross sits over the entrance and numerous windows can be seen throughout.; Berendo Street Baptist Church is the oldest Korean Baptist church in the country. On March 10, 1957, Kim Dong-Myung ("Don") and Ahn Ee-Sook ("Esther"), home missionaries appointed by the North American Mission Board while students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, organized the second Korean Baptist church in the United States, Berendo Street Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The church experienced immediate growth, with some twenty nations joining their fellowship. By 1963, the church had baptized 190 people and had 226 members. Berendo quickly became the largest Korean church in Los Angeles, a fact that remained true until the middle 1970s. In 1989, under the new leadership of Park Sung-Kun, its second senior pastor, the church again experienced great growth. Today, the church has approximately 2,000 members.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :color ;11 x 16 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075216
Jeff Allen Houses of Worship Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b84_f2_i27
CARL0000077805
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120993
Subject
Berendo Street Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baptist church buildings--California--Los Angeles
Church buildings--California--Los Angeles
Korean language--Writing
Architecture--Details
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Jeff Allen Houses of Worship Collection photographs

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