PCAD - Point Loma Greek Theatre, San Diego, CA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts buildings; built works - performing arts structures - theatres

Point Loma, San Diego, CA

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Located on what was property of the Point Loma Community, a Theosophist undertaking in San Diego, CA.

Theosophist leader, Katherine Tingley, began a "School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity," at Point Loma, San Diego, CA, in February 1897. This was to become the center for the Theosophist movement in the U.S., a religion seeking to amalgamate ideas from ancient and modern philosophical and theological traditions, particularly those of the ancient Indians and Greeks. She erected this first open-air Greek theatre in the United States at her Point Loma Community in 1901.

PCAD id: 6724

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"Point Loma Greek Theatre", Architect and Engineer, 62-63, 08/1924. "Founding of colony at Point Loma", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 1, col 1-2, 04/05/1899.

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History of the First Greek Theatre in America at Point Loma, California 1902-1965

Point Loma Greek Theatre, San Diego, CA (1901)

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