PHOTO: MICHAEL SAMPLES
FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS
PHOTO: MICHAEL SAMPLES
PHOTO: VISIT DALLAS PHOTO: FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS
RENDERING: HKS
team, the Lone Star Brahmas junior hockey team, the Frisco RoughRiders AA baseball team, and the Dallas Sidekicks soccer team all keep sports fans entertained year-round.
CHAPEL OF THANKSGIVING
CULTURE
CATHEDRAL SHRINE OF THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
CHUA DAO QUANG BUDDHIST TEMPLE, GARLAND
RELIGION
The Dallas Region is a marvelous mix of people of all faiths, Christian and non-Christian alike. Members of every Protestant group will find church homes here, as well as Catholics, Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Unitarian Universalists. NonChristian faiths represented here include Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as smaller groups such as Bahá’í Faith, Jain, Sikh, Tao, and Zoroastrian.
EDUCATION SMU’s Guildhall is ranked as the No. 3 grad school for game design in the world. Collegiate varsity esports squads and programs are growing: TEXAS WESLEYAN offers scholarships to esports athletes. UNT is home of the Nest esports design space. UTA has the first esports club, founded in 2010. UTD took 1st and 2nd place in the inaugural League of Legends tournament.
2022
> Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in the Arts District portion of downtown Dallas, has the largest Latino parish congregation in the nation.
> Temple Emanu-El, founded in 1875, was the first Jewish congregation in North Texas and is the largest Reform synagogue in the South and Southwest United States.
> Approximately two dozen Buddhist temples are located in the region, among them the Kadampa Meditation Center, offering meditation classes and workshops.
> Dallas hosts the “world’s largest gay church,” Cathedral of Hope, with more than 4,000 members.
> There are several Sikh temples— among them the Gurudwara Singh Sabha in Richardson.
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