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    Kansas Zen Center

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 2 May 2008.

    Phone: 785-331-2274
    Email: info@kansaszencenter.org
    Website: http://www.kansaszencenter.org
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    History

    The Center opened in 1978. For additional information about the Center's history, see the web site.

    Activities and Schedule

    The chief activity is...
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    Chua Pho Hien

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 8 September 2015.

    Phone: 816-454-4996
    Email: trivanlemo@msn.com
    Website: http://chuaphohienkc.wordpress.com/
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    Bhaktivana Yoga Center

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 22 March 2013.

    Phone: 785-979-1639
    Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bhaktivana-Yoga-Center/343568627151?sk=notes#!/pages/Bhaktivana-Yoga-Center/343568627151
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    Description

    The Bhaktivana Yoga Center has brought the Vaishnavite mode of Hinduism to the outskirts of a small northeast Kansas town. The center comprises three buildings, the main building being a two-story adobe-style house. The worship location rotates...

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    Temple B’nai Jehudah

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 4 December 2012.

    Phone: 913-663-4050
    Email: info@bnaijehudah.org
    Website: http://www.bnaijehudah.org
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    History

    The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah is the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Founded in 1870 by 25 pioneer families with only $800, it has been a Reform congregation from the start. According to the website, membership currently numbers approximately 1... Read more about Temple B’nai Jehudah

    Chabad House Center of Kansas City

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 17 December 2012.

    Phone: 913-649-4852
    Email: info@chabadkc.org
    Website: http://www.kansasjewish.com/

    Background

    Founded in 1970, the Chabad House Center of Kansas City offers educational and social services for Jewish youth in Kansas City. Examples of current activities are Chanukah Wonderland, holiday crafts workshops, tennis, basketball, baseball, and walking or biking on the nearby trails. Rabbis of the center are members of organizations...

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    Kehilath Israel Synagogue

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 16 November 2013.

    Phone: 913-642-1880
    Email: events@kisyn.org
    Website: http://www.kisyn.org

    The Kehilath Israel Synagogue is comprised of 650 families. In addition to Rabbi Mandl, Jeffrey A. Shron serves as the cantor, Allan I. Greenberg is the ritual director, and Sheldon Singer is the President. Important holidays such as Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur may draw as many as 1,500 people to the synagogue. According to Cantor Shron, ethnicity within the...

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    Lawrence Chinese Evangelical Church

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 26 October 2006.

    Phone: 785-842-2343
    Email: liji@ku.edu
    Website: http://www.lcec.org

    Description

    Lawrence Chinese Evangelical Church meets at Lawrence Free Methodist Church, which occupies a large building in southwest Lawrence. The building has a striking large white steeple and is made of red brick in the colonial style.

    History

    The...
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    The Institute of Religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 3 June 2004.

    Phone: 785-843-7755
    Email: alnjpenrod@juno.com

    History

    The Institute of Religion, a ministry of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), serves students, faculty, and staff at Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU). HINU is a nationally-known school for Native Americans. The Institute began in 1955, which makes it the oldest LDS institute or ward in Lawrence. Spencer W. Kimball,...
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    Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 4 December 2012.

    Phone: 785-843-6472
    Website: http://nsmbclk.org/

    History

    The Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church originated in 1855 when the New England Immigrant Aid Society assembled and organized the Second Missionary Baptist Mission in Lawrence, Kansas. This date makes the church only one year younger than the City of Lawrence. The congregation originally held its meetings on the second floor of the Green Brothers’ Hardware store. It then... Read more about Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

    Saint Alban’s Anglican Church

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 3 June 2004.

    Phone: 913-268-0980
    Website: http://www.acahome.org/dmov/alban/index.htm

    History

    Saint Alban’s Anglican Church was founded in 1989 by Jack Swigert and now has about thirty families attending services. The members worshipped previously in the basement of a Catholic church on 75th Street in Kansas City, and they moved to their current location in 1989. The congregation was formed out of...
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    Kansas City Soka Gakkai International-USA

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 7 October 2014.

    Phone: 816-474-7973
    Website: http://www.sgi-kc.org/
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    The Kansas City Buddhist Center is the Greater Kansas City home of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). A major renovation in 2013 expanded the internal structure of the Center to accommodate its growing membership. Two distinct rooms for gongyo (prayer services) were incorporated in this renovation and a former...

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    Gaia Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 4 December 2012.

    Phone: 816-931-9900
    Email: info@gaiacommunity.org
    Website: http://www.gaiacommunity.org/
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    Mission

    Members of the Gaia Community "gather to honor the inherent sacredness of Nature in a family-supportive environment where diversity of belief and lifestyle is respected. We care for the Earth and each other because our lives depend on it." For more on their mission, visit this... Read more about Gaia Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation

    Ancient Wisdom

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 22 March 2013.

    Phone: 816-756-2743
    Email: vicky@ancientwisdomkc.org
    Website: http://www.ancientwisdomkc.org
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    University of Kansas Muslim Student Association (MSA)

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 22 March 2013.

    Contact Information

    Address: The University of Kansas, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045
    Email: arif_huq@hotmail.com
    Website: http://msaku.com

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    History

    The national Muslim Students Association has branches all over the USA and Canada. It started in 1963 when seventy Muslim students from across America and Canada came together at the University of Illinois...

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    Congregation Beth Shalom

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 27 August 2015.

    Phone: 816-361-2990
    Email: info@bethshalomkc.org
    Website: http://www.bethshalomkc.org/
    Activities and Schedule Beth Shalom offers Friday evening, Saturday morning, Sunday morning, and daily services. For details, please refer to the website, www.uscj.org/central/kansascb/. Once a month there is an alternative service that makes use of musical instruments. The congregation has a newsletter, The Scroll, and there are youth groups... Read more about Congregation Beth Shalom

    Haskell Indian Nations University Native American Church

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 4 January 2019.

    Phone: 785-749-8404
    Email: registrar@haskell.edu
    Website: http://www.haskell.edu/student-life/
    History While the Native American Church Club at Haskell is relatively young, the ceremonial peyote traditions of the Native American Church have been around for over a century. (The source for the following information is "The Visionary Cactus Guide," website and "The Native American Church,"... Read more about Haskell Indian Nations University Native American Church

    KU Hillel Foundation, Inc.

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 16 November 2013.

    Contact Information

    Address: 722 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence, KS 66044
    Email: Jlewis@kuhillel.org
    Website: http://www.kansas.hillel.org

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    Activities and Schedule

    For the Hillel organization at the University of Kansas, Shabbat service is Friday evenings, followed by dinner. Special Shabbat services such as Leadership Shabbat or Freshman Shabbat are held occasionally on a...

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    St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church (Formerly St. Sophia Orthodox Church)

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 4 December 2012.

    Phone: (785) 218-7663
    Email: saintnicholas.lawrence@gmail.com
    Website: http://www.saintnicholaschurch.net/
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    History

    In 1993, Father John Mack, an Orthodox priest, moved from a church in Topeka, Kansas, to work with the University of Kansas Orthodox campus ministry program. He shared his knowledge of Orthodoxy with students and other Lawrence residents for about five years in this capacity. In... Read more about St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church (Formerly St. Sophia Orthodox Church)

    New Reform Temple

    Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 22 March 2013.

    Phone: 816-523-7809
    Email: nrt7100@aol.com
    Website: http://www.nrtkc.org
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    Activities and Schedule

    The Temple offers Friday evening shabbat services and Sunday morning Sunday school and confirmation class. For specific times and locations, see their website. Children's educational programs follow the principles of Reform ideals and include such subjects as...

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