Hope is a rare commodity on the struggling and hardened streets of downtown Los Angeles, and since 1910, Third Church of Christ, Scientist has extended this promise to passersby without interruption.
Like a meadow in a dark forest, this lone two-story brick building with its teal awnings and English garden is a bulwark in a neighborhood where crime and homelessness, addiction and despair are often on display.
Overshadowed by granite-and-glass high-rises... it has survived redevelopment and earthquakes, modernism and the pandemic while holding fast to its 19th century principles.
The husband-and-wife team fall into familiar routines: scanning the sidewalk and garden for wrappers, food scraps, clothing and needles, spraying deodorizer near the front door.
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