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Crystal CathedralThe Crystal Cathedral campus is a Christian religious center in the city of Garden Grove, within Orange County, California in Southern California. The Center was founded in 1980 by Rev. Robert H. Schuller and his wife, Arvella. It is dedicated to the creed 'Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.' The church is known for its world-famous architecture by Philip Johnson, most prominently the main sanctuary building which was constructed using over ten-thousand rectangular panes of glass. The Crystal Cathedral broadcasts its church services around the world on a television show called The Hour of Power and the campus provides facilities for those of a similar faith to congregate. The campus services include support groups, Sunday school classes and daily gatherings with other Christian followers. In a sermon in spring 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, the minister of the Crystal Cathedral, in a Sunday sermon, prayed to thank God that no one had been killed in that war. This prayer of thanks, interpreted as a statement of history, ignores, then, the demise of several tens of thousands of Iraqi military and perhaps 2,000 civilians, as well as, apparently, a few hundred U.S. and allied soldiers. Early on December 16, 2004, fifty-seven-year-old Johnnie Carl, the cathedral's orchestral conductor for 29 years, fired several rounds in the cathedral, shortly before the annual Glory of Christmas program was about to begin. The shots were fired in the vacant concourse area and no one was injured. The Carl then locked himself in a bathroom alone where he later shot himself before police could intervene. Carl reportedly suffered from depression The December 16th performances of the Glory of Christmas program was cancelled as a result of Carl's actions and suicide. The very name "Crystal Cathedral" is technically a misnomer: Schuller's denomination is more Presbyterian than anything else, and does not have bishops, while a cathedral is by definition the church where one finds a bishop's official seat. (And indeed, some denominations have bishops, but no cathedrals.) The Crystal Cathedral is occasionally referred to by the punning and derisive nickname, "Silica Basilica." External links
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