Rainbow Theatre

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Rainbow Theatre

Exterior view as its current use (c.2008)
Former names	Finsbury Park Astoria (1930–39) Odeon Astoria (1939–70) The Odeon (1970–71)
Address	232 Seven Sisters Road London, England N4 3NP
Location	Finsbury Park
Owner	The Rank Organisation
Capacity	2,802
Construction
Opened	29 September 1930 (1930-09-29)
Renovated	1975-77
Closed	January 1982 (1982-01)
Architect	Edward Albert Stone

The Rainbow Theatre, originally known as the Finsbury Park Astoria, then the Finsbury Park Paramount Astoria, and then the Finsbury Park Odeon, is a Grade II*-listed building in Finsbury Park, London. The theatre was built in 1930 as an "atmospheric cinema", to house entertainment extravaganzas which included a film show. It later became an ordinary cinema, then a music venue, as which it is best known, and then an occasional unlicensed boxing venue. Today, the building is used by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, an Evangelical church.