Showing posts with label Newport Beach Ward (CA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newport Beach Ward (CA). Show all posts

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Newport Beach (CA) Ward

Note: This post is one in a series that focuses on LDS architecture that is not historic, but that departs from standard cookie-cutter plans to become unique and beautiful in a different way. To see all of these posts, click here.

It's always interesting to stumble across a modern building (in this case, the chapel below in Long Beach, CA; just a few blocks from the ocean) and find something very unique. I always wish I could find out the story behind it.


This chapel has a beautiful tile mosaic along its southeast entrance:



It depicts the vision of the tree of life found in the Book of Mormon.



On the right side is presumably the great and spacious building, high up in the air.



On the left is the tree of life, with lines of people in the confusing mists of darkness on the left.


 It's pretty fun to find things like this in these buildings. The primary room also has a large mural of Christ with the children (the same one found in St. George and Blanding), but I wasn't able to get inside. It was still neat to see this mosaic.