Memorial Planned for Birthplace of Pentecostal Movement

June 2, 2001

Source: Los Angeles Times

On June 2, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported on Azusa Street in L.A., where the Pentecostal movement started in 1906. "This week, as thousands of believers gathered again in Los Angeles for the World Pentecostal Conference, a long-stalled effort to give the site its due took a significant step forward. In a ceremony...a multicultural memorial committee brought together Pentecostal and Japanese American leaders...Project members envision a mural and computerized kiosk that would tell of Azusa Street's rich and dramatic history...Today, those who worship in the Pentecostal style represent the world's second-largest bloc of Christians after the Roman Catholics." Azusa Street is also famous because it housed the First African Methodist Episcopal Church.