Faith Bible Church, Northridge, California

Infobox_local1 | name =Faith Bible Church
lahcm = yes


caption = Faith Bible Church, March 2008
location= 18531 Gresham St., Northridge, Los Angeles, California
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 6
lat_seconds = 6
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 118
long_minutes = 20
long_seconds = 27
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built =1917
architect=
architecture= Carpenter Gothic
designated_lahcm = 17 Apr, 1976Citation | last = Los Angeles Department of City Planning | year = 2007 | date = September 7, 2007 | title = Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments | place = | publisher = City of Los Angeles | edition = | url =http://www.cityprojectca.org/ourwork/documents/HCMDatabase090707.pdf | accessdate = 2008-05-29 ]
designated_lahcm_number = 152
governing_body = Private

Faith Bible Church, built in 1917, was the first church built in Northridge, Los Angeles, California.cite news|title=Northridge traces its origins to founding of a watering hole|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1985-06-27] The church was built nine years after the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks through Northridge, which was then known as Zelzah station, in 1908. When it was built, the church was originally known as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, as the six families that formed the congregation were of Norwegian descent. The original church building still stands at 18531 Gresham Street in Northridge. For many years, it was known as the Faith Bible Church. In April 1975, the Los Angeles Cultural Historical Board named the Gothic Revival church building as the City of Los Angeles's Historic-Cultural Monument No. 152. Built of wood in the basilican style, with the steeple at the entrance, the church's early Gothic style is differentiated from the High Victorian Gothic by the thinness of moldings and its generally monochromatic appearance. [cite book|author=Marcus Whiffer|title=American Architecture Since 1780|publisher=MIT Press|date=1969] One writer obseved that, "with its steep stairs and narrow girth, it looks like a church you'd find sitting all alone on the Kansas plains." [cite web|author=Kevin Roderick|title=Hometown Memories|publisher=Kevin Roderick: Author Journalist Editor|url=http://www.kevinroderick.com/nridge.html] More recently, the church has been acquired and operated as a Korean congregation known as either the Northridge Free Methodist Church, [cite web|title=Northridge, California|publisher=churchangel.com|url=http://www.churchangel.com/WEBCA/northrid.htm] or the Los Angeles Antioch Church. [cite web|title=Korean Churches in Los Angeles|publisher=laokay.com|url=http://www.laokay.com/KoreanChurches.htm] The sign on the church in March 2008 (in photograph to the right) identified it as the Los Angeles Antioch Church.

ee also

* List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley

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