Fox Theatre

Atlanta's Fox Theatre, originally the Yaarab Temple Shrine Mosque, was designed in the late 1920's as headquarters for the 5,000-member Shriner's organization. It was a beautifully outlandish, opulent, grandiose monument to the heady excesses of the pre-crash 1920's, a mosque-like structure complete with minarets, onion domes, and an interior decor which was even more lavish than its facade.

The decades which followed brought the Fox through many ups and downs: bankruptcy in the Great Depression, a heyday as a premier movie theater in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, gradual decline as the film culture moved toward smaller venues than the 4,000 seat Fox during the 70s; then a period of restoration and preservation under designation as a historic landmark, that continues through today.

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