Oasis Church, Christian church in Koreatown, Los Angeles, United States.
Oasis Church is a Christian place of worship in Koreatown, Los Angeles, housed in a 1927 building designed by architect Robert H. Orr. The structure sits on South Normandie Avenue and serves a large congregation numbering in the thousands.
The project began in 1984 as a small Bible study group with ten people in Beverly Hills. It later grew into a large community and relocated to its current location.
The congregation began in 1984 as a Bible-study group of ten people in Beverly Hills, and singer Donna Summer was among its original members; actress Viola Davis has also been a member. The church is noted for the diversity of its fellowship, which grew past three thousand members by the 2010s.
The building stands on South Normandie Avenue, its 1927 stone tower marked by an "OASIS CHURCH" sign band at street level, with trees partly screening the base. The congregation moved here during the 2010s from the Oasis Theatre, so the historic Wilshire Christian Church name still appears on the monument listing. Look for the stepped, flat-topped belfry crown and the row of small pointed arches below it.
In 1998 the church set a star for Jesus Christ in the sidewalk outside its then home on Wilshire Boulevard, modelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as the start of a planned "Walk of Faith". It is not an official Walk of Fame star.
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