Westside : Wilshire Boulevard Temple to Relocate
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple plans to move next year from near downtown Los Angeles to the Westside where most of its members reside.
The temple bought an entire block in West Los Angeles for $7 million. The site is bordered by Barrington, Mississippi and Barry avenues and Olympic Boulevard.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Dec. 20, 1995 Correction and Clarification: Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Los Angeles Times Wednesday December 20, 1995 Home Edition Metro Part B Page 5 Metro Desk 2 inches; 63 words Type of Material: Correction
The Times incorrectly reported Tuesday that the Wilshire Boulevard Temple was relocating to the Westside. In fact, the temple will stay at its existing site near downtown Los Angeles and expand, building a school and community center on the Westside.
Services at the Westside site will include a preschool scheduled to open in 1996.
The temple has 2,200 members, 60% of whom live on the Westside. The Tuesday story gave incorrect membership numbers.
A new temple is to be built on the site where the Barrington medical building stood before it was destroyed in the Northridge earthquake and eventually had to be torn down.
The temple plans to offer a preschool program and, in about five years, a school for 400 students up to the sixth grade. Religious services and community outreach programs also will be available at the new facility, said Rabbi Harvey J. Fields, senior rabbi of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
Geographically, the new facility makes sense for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple since about 2,200 Westsiders--60% of the temple’s total membership--belong to the temple.
The facility is scheduled to open in the fall of 1996, Fields said.
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