Bishop Asaiah leads Fountain of the World followers in prayer for the deceased leader, Krishna Venta, and the other nine victims of a bombing of the group's headquarters, 1958.

Title: Bishop Asaiah leads Fountain of the World followers in prayer for the deceased leader, Krishna Venta, and the other nine victims of a bombing of the group's headquarters, 1958.
Date Created: December 11, 1958
Date: 1958-12-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The house, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was destroyed by a bomb planted by two ex-members of the sect.
Caption: Daily Mirror caption: PRAYERS FOR THEIR 'MASTER' - With Bishop Asaiah (left) assuming temporary leadership of cult, followers say prayer for their "Master" and nine other victims of the explosion at monastery. Two of those killed were children.
LA Times caption: PRAYER - Bishop Asaiah, left, who assumed temporary leadership of the sect after the blast, leads followers in pryer for slain "Master" and other victims.

Genre: news photographs
Location: Ventura County (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.2513872
Latitude: -118.6503653
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Disaster
Photographers--United States
Bombings--California.
Victims of Crimes--California--Ventura County
Bishops
Prayer
Cults--California--Ventura County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115n
ARK: ark:/21198/zz001409ff
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