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Know Your City No.8 Entrance to Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo (Los Angeles), 1955

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Title: Know Your City No.8 Entrance to Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo (Los Angeles), 1955
Date Created and/or Issued: November 25, 1955
1955-11-25
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #313 by the City of Los Angeles in 1986.
ANSWER:As you might suspect from its Oriental architecture, the building in the picture is the Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, a religious center in the heart of the city's Little Tokyo. It has been around a long time, since 1927. This is run strictly for your amusement
KNOW YOUR CITY, NO. 8--This is very familiar to its 2300 members. And to thousands more. Even gives you the address: 119 N Central Ave.,near corner of E 1st St. Just for fun of it, can you guess what it is? Find answer on Page 28, Part II.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950AH
ark:/21198/zz0002t4fk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Religion
Temples, Buddhist--California--Los Angeles County
Landmarks
Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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