Historic VA chapel fallen into disrepair

Inside the abandoned chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

The decaying chapel on Wilshire Boulevard was dedicated in 1900 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Squatters have left heaps of trash, liquor bottles and used toilet paper inside.

Squatters have broken in and burned the pews in the chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

“It’s a metaphor for how the VA has taken care of veterans and this sacred land,” Jonathan Sherin, a veteran advocate, said of the VA chapel

Squatters have broken into the chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

A rooftop area of the abandoned chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

The decaying chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

Peeling paint on the Victorian-era chapel at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

The decaying chapel on Wilshire Boulevard was dedicated in 1900.