Know Your City No.8 Entrance to Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo (Los Angeles), 1955

Title: Know Your City No.8 Entrance to Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo (Los Angeles), 1955
Date Created: November 25, 1955
Date: 1955-11-25
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #313 by the City of Los Angeles in 1986.
ANSWER:As you might suspect from its Oriental architecture, the building in the picture is the Hompa Hongwanja Buddhist Temple, a religious center in the heart of the city's Little Tokyo. It has been around a long time, since 1927. This is run strictly for your amusement
Caption: KNOW YOUR CITY, NO. 8--This is very familiar to its 2300 members. And to thousands more. Even gives you the address: 119 N Central Ave.,near corner of E 1st St. Just for fun of it, can you guess what it is? Find answer on Page 28, Part II.

Genre: news photographs
Names: Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0494081742085
Latitude: -118.239102512598
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Religion
Temples, Buddhist--California--Los Angeles County
Landmarks

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950AH
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002t4fk
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