The Moorish-style building had cost $180,000 to build in 1906,making it at the time the most expensive in the Shriners'portfolio. Continental Oil Field Services Inc. recently has closeda $3.9-million purchase of the building, but remains undecidedabout its fate, says Pam Taylor, a broker for Coldwell BankerCommercial American Spectrum, which had handled thetransaction.
Located at 1770 Sherman St., the temple is commonly called "ElJebel," Arabic for the word "mountain" and so named for itsonion-shaped domes. The theater troupe, Eulipions, is the seller ofthe structure, which has a striking auditorium as its interiorfocal point.
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