Since 1954, Our Lady of Fatima Shrine has become a place of natural beauty, art, communal prayer, and renewal to thousands who visit the unique buildings and grounds each year. The magnificence and natural beauty of the Shrine is highlighted by an awe-inspiring Dome...
Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. Over the course of nine weeks, more than 100,000...
America’s Oldest Synagogue In 1658 the small but growing colony of Newport, Rhode Island received its first Jewish residents. These fifteen families came from Barbados, where a Jewish community had existed since the 1620’s. The subsequent stories and struggles...
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age…a time when vast fortunes were made in America by the Captains of Industry who built railroads, manufactured steel and established Wall Street. For these wealthy entrepreneurs fabulous wilderness estates were built in the...
Willard Memorial Chapel is an extremely rare example of the work of Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Glass and Decoration Co. in that it is the only complete and unaltered Tiffany chapel known to exist. Included in the Tiffany interior are 14 opalescent windows, a rose...
With a ministry beginning in 1628, Marble Collegiate Church’s current structure was built in 1854 and served as the base from which Dr. Arthur Caliandro and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, one of the greatest religious figures of the 20th Century, launched...
The Old North Church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the oldest active church building in Boston. It is also the place where Paul Revere’s famous “One if By Land, Two is by Sea” signal is said to have been sent. Inside the church is a...
Hancock Shaker Village began in the Berkshires, when nearly 100 Believers consolidated a community on land donated by local farmers who had converted to the Shaker movement. The community had peaked in population with more than 300 Believers. The Shakers developed a...
Notre Dame de Quebec is the oldest parish in the US and Canada, and will celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2014. It is also the first church in North America to be elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius IX in 1874. This famous 17th-century cathedral has...
The National Shrine of The Divine Mercy is a ministry of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the authentic promoters of the message of The Divine Mercy. Located in the heart of the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts, the...
Lily Dale Assembly is the world’s largest center for the science philosophy and religion of spiritualism. Each day of the season offers a series of events and experiences to bring information, enlightenment, hope and peace to those who open their hearts to receive....
This Shrine was the first one in the United States dedicated to Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus. It began in 1923. Through the years in addition to the church, rectory and school they also built an outdoor altar, Stations of the Cross and a beautiful 15 decade living...
