Wayfarers Chapel

Wayfarers Chapel
"The Glass Church"
Map
Location5755 Palos Verdes Drive South
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
CountryUnited States
DenominationSwedenborgian
Websitewayfarerschapel.org
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationNational Historic Landmark
Architect(s)Lloyd Wright
StyleModernist
Clergy
Minister(s)Rev. David Brown
(Director of Ministry)
Wayfarers Chapel
Wayfarers Chapel is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Wayfarers Chapel
Wayfarers Chapel is located in California
Wayfarers Chapel
Location5755 Palos Verdes Dr. S
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Coordinates33°44′37.1″N 118°22′39.9″W / 33.743639°N 118.377750°W / 33.743639; -118.377750
Area3.528 acres (1.428 ha)
Built1951
NRHP reference No.05000210 (NRHP listing),
100009801 (NHL designation)
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 11, 2005
Designated NHLDecember 11, 2023
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Wayfarers Chapel, or "The Glass Church" is a chapel designed by Lloyd Wright that was located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The chapel had unique organic architecture sited on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean. Affiliated with the Swedenborgian Church of North America, it served as a memorial to the 18th-century scientist and theosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally constructed in 1949, the chapel was dismantled in 2024 and carefully stored due to extreme earth movement that made the site no longer suitable.