Bird's-eye view of Los Angeles with the Azusa Street Church in the distance, circa 1895
Item Overview
- Title
- Bird's-eye view of Los Angeles with the Azusa Street Church in the distance, circa 1895
- Alternative title
- Early Views of Downtown Los Angeles
- Date Created
- [circa 1895]
- Date
- 1895
- Collection
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Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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The Azusa Mission Church played a key role in the Pentecostal movement at the turn of the twenty century. Its founder, William J. Seymour, an African American preacher, presided over the revival meetings and led the development of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. The first meeting was on April 14, 1906. Worship at 312 Azusa St. was frequent and spontaneous with services going almost around the clock. The services were characterized by spiritual experiences accompanied with testimonies of physical healing, miracles, and speaking in tongues. Along with members of the Holiness Movement, services were attended by Baptists, Mennonites, Quakers, and Presbyterians and by persons of different races. Women held positions of leadership. After 1915, the church went into decline; following Seymour’s death, his wife continued to hold worship services until 1931.
Panoramic of downtown of Los Angeles with the Azusa Street Church in the distance on the right.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- photographs
- Names
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Pentecostal Holiness Church
Azusa Street Mission (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Subject Geographic
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Pentecostalism
African American Spiritual churches