Celebrity Centre
Hollywood, California | |
Formation | 1969 |
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Type | Religious |
Headquarters | 5930 Franklin Ave, Los Angeles, California, United States |
Commanding Officer | Dave Petit[1] |
Website | scientology |
Church of Scientology Celebrity Centres are Churches of Scientology that are open to the general public but are intended for "artists, politicians, leaders of industry, and sports figures".[2]
The Celebrity Centre International was established in Los Angeles, California in 1969 by Yvonne Gillham and Heber Jentzsch in the Château Élysée, a 1920s building that had been built to replicate a 17th century French-Normandy chateau.[3][4][5]
Other Celebrity Centre organizations have since been established around the USA and in Europe.[6] As of 2022, there were ten Celebrity Centres open: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nashville and New York in the USA, and Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich, Florence, and two in Paris in Europe.[7]
Critics of Scientology point to L. Ron Hubbard's launch of "Project Celebrity" in 1955 to recruit celebrities into the church, and that the centres were established as an extension of this initial purpose.[8][9]
"A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists."
— L. Ron Hubbard[10]
Though the Church of Scientology denies the existence of a policy to recruit high-ranking celebrities,
Violent incident
On November 23, 2008, Mario Majorski arrived at the Los Angeles Celebrity Centre wielding dual
See also
References
- ^ Church of Scientology of Orange County hosts a "swinging" wedding, December 21, 2012, The New Santa Ana
- ^ Quick Facts : Church of Scientology : Celebrity Centre International
- ISBN 9781440832499
- Advance! Magazine, Issue 6 (1969) by Church of Scientology. Page 8.
- Ideal Churches of Scientology
- Churches in the United States
- Churches in Europe, Church of Scientology. Accessed December 15, 2022.
External links
- Official website
- "Ecclesiastical Structure: "Celebrity Centre Churches"". A presentation of the Celebrity Centres churches. Church of Scientology. Archived from the original on November 10, 2005. (2022 version)