Cultural Center Opens at Site of Historic Church

The former Union Church, a national historic and cultural landmark, has been reborn as the Union Center for the Arts.

The long-awaited cultural center, which rose from the ruins of the church built in 1923, will now become home for three of Los Angeles’ oldest arts organizations: East West Players, L.A. Artcore and Visual Communications. The centerpiece of the complex is a 250-seat theater.

“This is fabulous,” said Gayle Anderson, of the Community Redevelopment Agency, which helped fund the project. “It will bring the theater community all over Los Angeles into Little Tokyo. And it is especially important to this community that it was on the site of the old church.”