The first church for this congregation, designed by Oscar Ruffini and built in 1887, was replaced by the present red brick building with a steep gabled facade broken by four prominent pilasters that rise to finials, Romanesque and Renaissance details, and a large square corner tower. The Valk firm of Los Angeles gave the church a wedge-shaped Akron plan with a raked floor. The gently domed wooden ceiling strongly recalls a ship’s hull, supported by simply detailed curved beams of dark-stained wood. The focal point of the worship space is a green-painted pipe organ set in a deep, two-story apse outlined with semicircular arches. The apse’s outside wall is faceted instead of curved.