Wilshire Ward Chapel

The Hollywood Stake Tabernacle was commissioned in the late 1927 after the division of the Los Angeles Stake with the newly formed Hollywood Stake. The structure was designed by architects Hyrum Pope and Harold W. Burton in an Art Deco and Modern style. The cornerstone was laid in 1928 by then Stake President George W. McCune and the building was dedicated on April 28, 1929 at a cost of $250,000. The funds for the building were raised by church members in the area and matched one-to-one with church headquarters. Many local church members provided volunteered labor on the building. The building seats approximately 2,100.

Heber J. Grant, the President of The Church at the time, dedicated the building and stated that it was "one of the very finest buildings that we have ever erected in any of the stakes of Zion for stake and ward purposes, and I am sure it will give us a very splendid standing in that section of the country. I rejoice in the beauty of the building and in the surroundings, as well as in the great accomplishment there. Due to its construction and design, the tabernacle was considered the "finest cement building in America" by Architectural Concrete in 1933.

The building was recommended for discontinuation of use in 1970, however local leaders fought to preserve the building. The neighborhood was beginning to deteriorate and renovations were needed, but the local stake presidency felt that it would be a mistake to abandon the building. It went through major renovations that were completed in 2003 and the building was then rededicated by president Gordon B. Hinckley. The building remains in use as a meetinghouse by three Wards (Wilshire, Los Angeles Third (Spanish-speaking), Olympic (Korean-speaking)), but no longer functions as a LDS tabernacle. The meetinghouse is listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is on the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation registry. The Wilshire Ward Chapel was formerly known as the Hollywood Stake Tabernacle.