Jay Penske, who owns Rolling Stone and Variety, hopes to build a mansion on the site of the First Baptist Church of Venice in the historically Black Oakwood neighborhood. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles ...

CoastLife Church will host its second annual Easter Egg Drop on April 8 from 10 a.m. to noon at Venice High School, and Hope City Church in Sarasota will present the Sarasota Egg Drop on April 9. The ...

Architect Victor Lundy, who died last year at age 101, designed some of Sarasota’s most significant buildings, including multiple places of worship, like this drive-in Presbyterian church in Venice.

Traces of a long-lost medieval church are thought to have been uncovered in the Piazza San Marco—the iconic square that sits at the heart of Venice, Italy. Archaeologists had been conducting ...

The large, midcentury A-frame building on Westminster Avenue that once housed the First Baptist Church of Venice is a shell of its former self. Nestled in Venice’s Oakwood neighborhood, an area once ...

On a recent Sunday, I drove past the historic First Baptist Church in the Oakwood section of Venice. The church was the heart of Venice’s African American community for more than a century. Now its ...

The city of Venice in Italy was the place where the first Greek Diaspora settled in the modern, post-Byzantine era.

For 100 years, The First Baptist Church of Venice has called Venice home but a fire this week threatened to destroy a century’s worth of history. And residents believe it wasn’t accidental. Los ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission recommended Thursday that the LA City Council nominate a historic Black church in the Oakwood community of Venice to the Historic-Cultural ...