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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Who Knew?
A story from the Religion News Blog brought to my attention that the headquarters and "spiritual center" of the Church of Scientology is located in Clearwater, FL, just across the bay from Tampa:
In the mid-'70s, the church, using a nondescript business name, purchased the Fort Harrison Hotel and Bank of Clearwater building. Since that time, the church has purchased much more property downtown, and is building the $50-million Flag building, across the street from the Fort Harrison Hotel, Clearwater is now the church's international "spiritual headquarters." More than 8,200 Scientologists now live in the Clearwater area.
At least now I know I'll have something to do when (if) I'm not busy with graduate school things: drive over to Clearwater and stare at the weird Scientologists (there are about 8200 of them in the area). Maybe I'll even get a glimpse of Tom and Katie.
Posted by Will at June 16, 2005 01:05 PM in Graduate School