The ugliest is the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles.
However, last year, the Our Savior Church, a beautiful Catholic house of worship built in the Italian Romanesque style, opened a block north of USC.
Maybe it made some kind of economic sense. Cheaper than building a new cathedral from scratch? But it’s an ugly looking building. It joins the ranks of some other really ugly-looking modernist cathedrals in California.
A cathedral should be beautiful, and it should focus the congregation’s attention on the altar and the Mass. It still looks like what it was, a Mega Church built and run by boastful pastors who went a little too far and couldn’t pull it off.
The ugliest is the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles.
However, last year, the Our Savior Church, a beautiful Catholic house of worship built in the Italian Romanesque style, opened a block north of USC.
There were some great articles about this a couple years ago. The Catholic Church saved a bundle by buying this property and the land rather than building a new facility.
What is interesting about this building is how Schuler insisted on an all glass building despite the earthquake building codes. I don’t think there could be another approved there. I remember when he built it growing up.