Between 1929 and 1930, Frederick A. Hansen created the Wee Kirk o' the Heather Chapel for Forest Lawn by copying the 17th century village church at Glencairn, Scotland, where Annie Laurie worshipped.; Architect Charles H. Kyson designed the 1925 Tower of Legends at Forest Lawn and Finn Haakon Frolich was the sculptor. The carved bass-relief symbolizes progress, genius and religion. The Tower was demolished in 1948 to make way for the 1951 Italian Gothic cathedral known as the Hall of The Crucifixion-Resurrection, which was designed exclusively to house two paintings on the life of Christ. Two women sitting on the lawn in front of the Wee Kirk o' the Heather Chapel at Forest Lawn in Glendale. In the upper right is the Tower of Legends.
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