Gene Scott's Kevo

Los Angeles University Cathedral
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The Los Angeles University Cathedral is located at 933 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was originally a movie palace, designed by the architect C. Howard Crane of the firm Walker & Percy Eisen for the United Artists corporation formed by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

Construction was completed in 1927. The theatre was the first of many constructed by United Artists and served as the first major preview house located in Los Angeles rather than in New York City. The building was the tallest privately owned structure in Los Angeles until 1956. Its style is Spanish Gothic, patterned after a cathedral in Segovia, Spain.

Later History:

After being leased in 1989 by the late televangelist Dr. William Eugene Scott to be used as the location from which to broadcast the live Sunday services of his Protestant ministry, a thorough renovation, directed and supervised by Christine Shaw, the second wife of Dr. Scott, was performed to the interior of the building. Dr. Scott held his first Sunday service there in 1990 and continued to hold Sunday services there until his death in 2005. A designated historic monument in itself, with the historic monument "Jesus Saves" sign (originally from The Church of the Open Door) on its roof, the former United Artists Theatre now houses one of the largest privately owned collection of English Bibles. Dr. Gene Scott, Inc. purchased the building, originally just leased as noted above, in 2002.

Sunday Services continue (at this time) to be held at the Los Angeles University Cathedral hosted by Pastor Melissa Pastore-Scott the third wife of the late Dr. William Eugene Scott.