The West Palm Beach Auditorium was a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena

Arena

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 in West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...

. It was built in 1965, at the intersection of North Congress Avenue and Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard. It was home to the West Palm Beach Blaze

West Palm Beach Blaze

The West Palm Beach Blaze were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in West Palm Beach, Florida. They played in the Sunshine Hockey League, later renamed the Southern Hockey League, from 1992–1996. They played their games at the West Palm Beach Auditorium, which is now known as the...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team and Florida Bobcats

Florida Bobcats

The Florida Bobcats are a defunct Arena Football League team. They had been previously known as the Sacramento Attack and the Miami Hooters.-Sacramento Attack :...

 arena football

Arena football

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 team. It hosted the twelfth WWF In Your House

In Your House

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 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.

It was sold in the late 1990s to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., the main legal entity used by Jehovah’s Witnesses, which in turn renovated the building and grounds. The name was changed to West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center. It is only used now for their assemblies and conventions. This year conventions run from the end of May to the end of September in English, Spanish, and French.