The Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove was constructed in 1894. The wooden building rests on bridge-like steel trusses laid on stone foundations and it features numerous "barn door" entrances with colored glass, dormers, and panels that open for ventilation.. Originally the Auditorium was claimed to hold 10,000 people, but over the years many of the smaller wooden seats were replaced, reducing the capacity to 6,250 people. The Auditorium has superb acoustics resulting from its barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling; famed conductor Leonard Bernstein once compared it to Carnegie Hall. The illuminated Memorial Cross was placed on the Auditorium's front façade at the end of WWII in 1946. It houses a pipe organ that is one of the 20 largest in the world.
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