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Crystal Cathedral, California
Before megachurches had coffee bars, there was one with 10,000 windows. The Crystal Cathedral opened in 1980 as the new home for Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power, the country’s most-watched religious TV show.
Here’s how a drive-in preacher created television’s most recognizable church, still standing as a landmark today.
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It Started at a Drive-In Movie Theater
Robert Schuller didn’t begin his ministry in some fancy church. In 1955, he rented the Orange Drive-In Theatre and preached from the roof of the snack bar to people sitting in their cars…