An engineer who consulted on the project said that the steel truss supporting the balcony was the largest ever constructed. When built, the auditorium could hold 1,200 people on stage and seat an audience of 6,442. Albert Lansburgh, with local architects John C. The new auditorium was designed in the Moorish Revival style by San Francisco-based theater architect G. The Shrine Auditorium in 1990, before the 2002 renovations. The entire complex follows a Moroccan architectural motif. In 2002, the auditorium underwent a $15 million renovation that upgraded the stage with state-of-the-art lighting and rigging systems, and included new roofing and air conditioning for both the Auditorium and Expo Center, modernized concession stands, additional restrooms, repainting of the Expo Center, and a new performance plaza and parking garage. In the late 1960s, the Shrine was referred to as 'The Pinnacle' by the audiences of rock concerts. The fire gutted the structure in just 30 minutes, and nearly killed six firefighters in the process.

Opened in 1926, the current Shrine Auditorium replaced an earlier 1906 Al Malaikah Temple which had been destroyed by a fire on January 11, 1920. 139) in 1975, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No.

It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California.

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