Location: Pasadena, California

Completed: 1992

Client: Shinji Shumeikai of America

Size: 33,200 s.f.

This facility, located in Pasadena, consists of a 504-seat sanctuary, an administration building, and a 33-car, basement parking garage. The soaring sanctuary roof features clerestory windows to let in purifying light, and the sanctuary's circular plan also symbolizes purity, reflecting the organization's spiritual beliefs. The site design enhances the processional sequence that the members and visitors ritually experience.