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‘The building has lived several lives’: How a 1931 church became a glamorous new boutique hotel

LOS ANGELES — There's a cross on the roof, stained glass in the windows and a choir loft upstairs, but this whitewashed three-level building near Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is no longer a house of worship.

‘The building has lived several lives’: How a 1931 church became a glamorous new boutique hotel

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LOS ANGELES — There's a cross on the roof, stained glass in the windows and a choir loft upstairs, but this whitewashed three-level building near Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is no longer a house of worship.

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LOS ANGELES — There's a cross on the roof, stained glass in the windows and a choir loft upstairs, but this whitewashed three-level building near Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is no longer a house of worship.

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