Cathedral of Tomorrow

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The Cathedral of Tomorrow was built in 1958 as home to Rex Humbard's ministry. The Cathedral, a round building with the sanctuary in the middle and classrooms and offices around the edges, located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, seats 5,400.

Under Rex Humbard's ministry, Cathedral services were broadcast on 600 television stations in the United States and Canada, as well as on stations in many other countries.

The influential Gospel quartet, The Cathedrals, had their origin at the Cathedral of Tomorrow.

Humbard began to build a rotating tower restaurant at his Cathedral of Tomorrow complex, which was also slated to hold a transmission tower for his planned local TV station, WCOT-TV. When Humbard was given the opportunity to go on more radio stations throughout South America to spread Christianity, construction on the restaurant tower ceased. The unfinished tower, which still exists, became an in-famous landmark in the community, with a controversial history. It was finally purchased by a local businessman and is now used as a cellular phone tower.

After Humbard moved his ministry to Florida in the 80's, the Cathedral was home to a series independent local churches which had increasingly fewer ties with the Humbard family.

In the 1990's, the cathedral was sold to the Reverend Ernest Angley's ministry, and was rededicated as Grace Cathedral, the name of Angley's previous house of worship. It also hosts a diorama called 'The Life Of Christ', and a very popular family style restaurant called the 'Cathedral Buffet'.