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West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center
West Palm Beach Auditorium
Former names West Palm Beach Auditorium
Location 1610 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Owner Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc.
Capacity 6,000
Construction
Built 1965
Tenants
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (NASL) (1979–80)
West Palm Beach Blaze/Barracudas (SuHL/SHL) (1992–96)
Florida Hammerheads (RHI) (1993–94)
Florida Bobcats (AFL) (1996–98)

West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center (originally known as West Palm Beach Auditorium) is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the intersection of North Congress Avenue and Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard. It was built in 1965 as the West Palm Beach Auditorium and was designed by famed architect Bertrand Goldberg. It was home to the West Palm Beach Blaze ice hockey team, Florida Bobcats arena football team and Florida Hammerheads roller hockey team. It hosted the twelfth WWF In Your House pay-per-view in 1996. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers played their indoor soccer games here in the early 1980s. It was also host to innumerable concerts from different rock acts.

The facility was sold in the late 1990s to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., the main legal entity used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The building and grounds were renovated and the name was changed to West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center.[1] It is now used only for their assemblies and conventions. Conventions usually run from the end of May to the end of September in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.

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