which helped strengthen trust between Japan and local communities.

The War Relocation Authority used the excuse of the churchs non-payment of property taxes in its plan to convert the church into a home for the Japanese elderly.While the GBC could no longer hold its annual in-person Obon Festivals during this time.

church membership is believed to have reached more than a thousand.GBC held its annual temple bell-ringing.From Japanese residents in the 1920s coming together to build their own community church to surviving and rebuilding after the tragedies of World War II incarceration.

It was the last time we saw my father as he was arrested and taken to Los Angeles County jail.which became a hub of social activity yet again.

My family has been a part of the temple community since 1928.

Gardena Buddhist Churchs summer program for middle school students.primarily of our Latinx/Hispanic neighbors.

or to change the way we honor history and the people who made that hstory.seven years old at the time … But in this history.

Former Tule Lake incarceree Kyoko Oda.we have to know that what happened was not a Japanese problem.