Aimee Semple McPherson built a megachurch in Echo Park. Then at the peak of her fame, she seemed to vanish into the waves at ...

On a May afternoon in Los Angeles in 1926, one of the most powerful women in American history waded into the ocean and vanished. Before she walked down to the water’s edge that day, Aimee had been on ...

Echo Park— Did evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of Echo Park’s Angelus Temple, fake her own kidnapping in 1926? Was ...

On January 1, 1923, at 2:15 p.m., Aimee Semple McPherson opened the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple to the public. Thousands of people streamed into the domed concrete building across from Los Angeles' Echo ...

She was a blend of P.T. Barnum, the colorful showman credited with declaring, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and the infamous flamboyant televangelist couple Tammy Faye and Jim Baker who built ...

ECHO PARK (CBSLA.com) — Wednesday night, on the field, he beat the Giants. Thursday night, off the field, Dodgers hurler Clayton Kershaw showed why -- when it comes to giving -- he is something of a ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The Dream Center, the nonprofit of the Pentecostal megachurch Angelus Temple, doesn’t appear to plan on stopping. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Just over a month after the Dream Center began ...

THE VANISHING EVANGELIST (334 pp.) —Lately Thomas—Viking ($4.95). Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson, 28, landed in Los Angeles in 1918 with $10 and a tambourine. Six years later she had built these ...

The Echo Park Historical Society isn't the only one with issues with the above project, a 75-unit senior apartment housing complex off Glendale Boulevard that will break ground this Friday. The ...