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World’s Largest Bible Museum Opens in Washington D.C.

A massive Bible museum with around $500m opened recently Washington DC this week. It is the brainchild of the evangelical Christian president of US arts and craft chain Hobby Lobby. The Bible museum has been eight years in the making, according to the Associated Press, after Hobby Lobby president Steve Green began collecting biblical artifacts. His family’s arts and crafts chain has been a lightning rod for controversy in recent years, convincing the US Supreme […]

By yashoda

December 9, 2017

House of Memories at Major Archbishop’s House, Pattom

Beth Dukhrone or House of Memories, an exposition of pictures and personal effects of three heads of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, was inaugurated by Major Archbishop of the Church Mar Baselios Cleemis at Major Archbishop’s House, Pattom, Kerala recently. The House of Memories shall have the Photographs and personal belongings of Archbishop Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios, and Major Archbishop Catholicos Moran Mor Cyril Baselios exhbited at the museum, which will be open […]

By yashoda

August 2, 2017

New Buddhism Museum at Niagara

Ontario, June 28; Buddhist Association of Canada has opened a museum of Buddhism (Buddhism Museum – samsara gallery ) in Niagara Falls, Ontario to mark their 50th Anniversary. The museum is housed in a seven-story pagoda, the association’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira Stupa. It will house Buddhist artifacts and memorabilia from China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Tibet, including a 7-tonne bronze Buddha statue and 2,200 8-inch Buddha statues. The association hopes that the museum (Buddhism Museum) […]

By Religion World

June 28, 2017