Within
the walls of Angelica Lutheran Church, a rich medley of stories traces
the layers of history and ever-shifting demographics of the Pico-Union
district of Los Angeles.

Sepia-hued photos show the church’s
founding congregation of Swedish immigrants, blond and bedecked in
flapper fashion of long coats and cloche hats, as they lay the
cornerstone for the imposing Gothic Revival building in 1925. Six
decades later, Swedish American congregant Evelyn Price offered the
first citizenship and English classes to scores of refugees escaping
war in El Salvador and Guatemala, and the church housed many of them as
part of the city’s sanctuary movement, according to the Rev. Carlos
Paiva.

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