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Crenshaw Christian Center is a US megachurch based in South Los Angeles, California and New York City. It was founded in 1973 by Frederick K. C. Price and as of 2017 has around 28,000 members. Price's son Fred K. Price, Jr. led the church from 2009 until his resignation in 2017.Its current California campus is located on the site of the old Pepperdine University campus, which lay vacant for years before being sold to Crenshaw Christian Center. After the purchase, Price oversaw construction of a new sanctuary, called the "FaithDome", which at the time was the largest domed church in the United States, seating over 10,000. The church had greatly expanded from the time of its previous location at 9550 Crenshaw Boulevard in Inglewood, California, but still required three services for its growing congregation until the building of the FaithDome.The campus also includes the Frederick K. C. Price, III Christian Schools, named in honor of Price's first son (now deceased, not the present Pastor Price). The Price High Knights compete in men's and women's varsity basketball and men's football.In 2007 Frederick K.C. Price, who was then pastor, filed a defamation suit after the ABC television network aired a segment of their 20/20 investigative journalism program about certain of the largest, well-known Christian ministries in the U.S. Titled "Enough!", it was about how these ministries appeared to be misspending their congregants' tithes and offerings. It illustrated that Price was one of the ministers who had become overly wealthy as a result of misusing his congregants' monies. To this end, the program broadcast a portion of a Sunday service at Crenshaw Christian Center in which Price, casting himself as a fictional character for the sake of illustration, made statements from his character's point of view about having great riches. 20/20 failed to state the context of those statements, thus allowing them to appear to be statements being made directly by Price himself. ABC later apologized on air and in writing.