The Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial is a large concrete Christian cross on the summit of Mount Soledad, 823 feet (251 meters) high, in La Jolla, San Diego. A cross was first built there in 1913 and has been rebuilt twice. The present one was dedicated in 1954 as the Mount Soledad Easter Cross. The article names no architect or height.
The word Easter was dropped in the 1980s. After a court challenge in the late 1980s it was designated a Korean War memorial.
A long legal fight followed. In January 2011 the Ninth Circuit ruled the cross unconstitutional on government land. The Supreme Court denied review on June 25, 2012. The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association bought the half-acre under the cross from the Department of Defense for $1.4 million in July 2015, and the case was dismissed as moot in 2016.
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