All Saints Episcopal Church (Pasadena, California)
| All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena | |
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| 34°08′53″N 118°08′34″W / 34.1479631°N 118.1428578°WCoordinates: 34°08′53″N 118°08′34″W / 34.1479631°N 118.1428578°W | |
| Location | Pasadena, California |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Episcopal |
| Churchmanship | Progressive |
| Website | All Saints Church |
| History | |
| Founded | November 1882 |
| Founder(s) | Mr. and Mrs. CC Brown, Rev. Trew |
| Dedicated | April 18, 1885 (original) |
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| Status | Church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Gothic revival |
| Completed | December 1924 |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles |
| Province | Province VIII |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | Rev. Mike Kinman |
All Saints Church is an Episcopal church located in Pasadena, California and part of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. The current building is the third home for activities of this church.
The church has a reputation of being one of Southern California's most liberal churches and one of the largest Episcopal churches in the country. Former Rector Ed Bacon said that political activism "is in the DNA of the church."
In 1980, All Saints was listed by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places as a Contributing Structure to the Pasadena Civic Center District.
In November 1882, eleven people gathered in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Brown for services conducted by the Reverend Trew. In 1885 the congregation dedicated its first church building at the corner of Colorado Blvd. and Garfield Ave. on April 5 (Easter Day). The parish continued to grow rapidly, and a new site was purchased at 132 North Euclid for the building of a 600-seat church. First services were held Easter Day, April 21, 1889. The congregation outgrew the church building, and a new church building was built in 1923. It was designed by architects Roland Coate (1890-1958), Reginald Davis Johnson (1882 - 1952) and Gordon Kaufmann (1888–1949), and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It opened in 1924.
All Saints bought additional property in 1926-7, where it built a parish hall and rectory. The architects for these buildings were Cyril Bennett and Fitch Harrison Haskell, designers of the Civic Auditorium. They were also designed in the English Gothic style, and form an integrated courtyard with the main church. The Parish Hall suffered extensive damage during two fires in 1976.
A series of long rectorships began with the arrival of the Reverend Leslie E. Learned in 1908:
All Saints leaders and parishioners agreed that the church needed to add to its building space to house the increased scope of its activities. Having grown to 3,500 members in the congregation, 125 ministries and 13,000 per year, the facilities built in the 1920s were inadequate for the 21st Century. In 1999, the church hired architect Michael Palladino to design a suitable space. He developed a four-building complex employing a contemporary design, but using many of the same architectural materials as the existing complex. The proposal was presented to the Pasadena planning commission in 2007, and was estimated to cost $46.0 million. In 2008, the commission ruled that the proposed project could not proceed until a new full environmental impact report (EIR) could be produced and approved. The draft report was issued in July, 2010.
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