Congregation members who split from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Congregation members who split from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1925

Date Created

[between September-October 1925]

Date

1925-09/1925-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

A group of men, women, and children stand, sit, or kneel in a darkened church. Two factions of the Angelus Temple defected from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple in 1925. These groups were located in Burbank and in Santa Ana. Their respective dissent was reported on in "Leave Mother Church: Burbank Congregation Severs Ties with Angelus Temple," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 1925: 10 and "Prayer Downs Church Parley: Four Square Love Feast Proves Unfruitful, Discussion of Lawsuit is Hindered by Praise, Santa Ana Dissenters Give Version of Trouble," Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 1925: 12.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Angelus Temple Bldg & Interiors
Handwritten on negative: Congregation that left Angelus Temple

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Angelus Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Congregational churches--California--Los Angeles