4140 Broadway,
New York, NY 10033, United States
Venue Description:
The United Palace is a former theatre now used as a church and live music venue, located at 4140 Broadway between West 175th and 176th Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. New York City. It was built and opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a movie palace, and was designed by Thomas W. Lamb in an eclectic mix of styles. It originally presented films and vaudeville, but its last commercial film presentation was in 1968-69, and the theatre was bought for over half a million dollars in 1969 by the evangelist Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, to be the headquarters for his United Church Science of Living Institute. The historic theatre, renamed the Palace Cathedral and colloquially called "Reverend Ike's Prayer Tower", was restored by the church.
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