The Crystal Cathedral is a church building in Garden Grove, in Orange County, California, United States.

It is the headquarters and principal place of worship for Crystal Cathedral Ministries, a Protestant Christian church organization founded in 1955 byRobert H. Schuller and affiliated with the Reformed Church in America. The building, designed by architect Philip Johnson, was completed in 1981 and seats 2,736 people. Schuller established the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, and held worship services in a drivein theater in Orange. In 1961 the church moved into a new purpose-built building in Garden Grove. In 1977 Schuller commissioned Philip Johnson to design a new building for the rapidly growing church. The building was constructed using over 10,000 rectangular panes of glass. The church changed its name to Crystal Cathedral when it moved into the building in 1981. The name "Crystal Cathedral" is merely analliterative construct; the building is not made of crystal and it is not a true cathedral in that it does not house a bishop's official seat. On October 18, 2010, the board of Crystal Cathedral Ministries filed for bankruptcy. The church received offers for the building from a real estate investment group, fromChapman University, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, all with the provision of the building being leased back to the church for a period of time. On November 17, 2011, the bankruptcy court ruled that the church building could be sold to the Diocese of Orange. The diocese plans to lease the facility to Crystal Cathedral Ministries for three years, after which Crystal Cathedral Ministries may move to a nearby Catholic church facility. The diocese intends to then begin remodeling the interior of the building for use as its diocesan cathedral.