LABC

"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" --Bahá'u'lláh

	*Los Angeles*
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LABC

Los Angeles
Bahá'í Center

Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'í Publications

Los Angeles Bahá'í Center

The Bahá'í Faith is organized administratively into local, national and universal elective bodies. Local communities are typically established along Judicial boundaries, and this is the case with Los Angeles. In terms of area and population, the City of Los Angeles stands at the core of one of the largest, most populous urban areas in the world, and it also has a large and growing Bahá'í population.

To serve the needs of this community, the Bahá'ís have a main "Center" located near the Baldwin Hills on Rodeo Road. The facility contains a large auditorium, numerous classrooms, offices and meeting rooms, a bookstore, and comfortable public areas. The Center operates seven days a week.

SUNDAY WORSHIP
Devotional services are held Sundays at 11:30 a.m., and are open to people of all Faiths. Visitors are not asked to donate anything other than their joyous presence. The program features the impressive Jeffrey Barnes Gospel Choir, as well as a variety of guest speakers and artists.

THORNTON CHASE BAHÁ'Í SCHOOL
On Sunday mornings during the public school year, there are classes for children and youth. For information or to register your child(ren), you may call the Center during normal business hours.

BAHÁ'Í YOUTH WORKSHOP
The Bahá'í Youth Workshop spends Sunday afternoons in the center in rehearsal and study. Since it's establishment in 1974, the Workshop has created and performed it's own dances in hundreds of cities. The Workshop's purpose was (and continues to be) the establishment of racial unity. Today, the Bahá'í Youth Workshop and it's T-shirt legend "One Planet, One People, ...Please" has been replicated in hundreds of cities all over the world, and public school children perform their most famous work, the Unity Dance.

UNITY CENTER
Adjacent to this site is the Unity Center, home of a of non-profit institution dedicated to the needs of youth. The complex houses the academically respected New Roads School. New Roads gives the youth of the surrounding communities affordable access to a prestigious educational institution. In addition to the school, the non-profit institution (MONA, or Multicultural Organization for Neighborhood Arts) also makes use of an equity waiver theater where the "arts" portion of the name will flower.
MONA is named in honor of Mona, a sixteen year old Iranian girl hanged in 1985 by the authorities for her refusal to deny her Faith in Bahá'u'lláh.

COFFEE HOUSE
On Saturdays, a coffeehouse springs into being. People from the far reaches of the planet gather to listen to live music, play chess and become acquainted. In warm weather everyone troops outside, where the trees, festooned with glittering lights compete with the stars overhead, and enchanting accents from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America mingle with native versions of English, creating a symphony. Oh, and coffee is served as well.

BBI
The bookstore, Bahá'í Booksource International, is open most days of the week. It offers the world's largest selection of Bahá'í and Bahá'í related materials, and is open to the public.

One
Planet
One
People
...Please

Call us
1-800-22-UNITE