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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. The main altar of Our Lady of Holy Rosary Mission on the day the church closed. The Mission was founded in 1920 by Mexican Catholics because they were not allowed to attend other Catholic churches. The site at the northwest corner of Colton Street and Beaudry Avenue was closed August 29, 1993 by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and sold to the Los Angeles Unified School District as a site for a new middle school, the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :color ;11 x 16 cm. Photographic prints
Our Lady of Holy Rosary Mission Catholic Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Calif.) Catholic churches--California--Los Angeles Church buildings--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Altars--California--Los Angeles Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. Mexican American photographs
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