The Assemblies of God National Headquarters

[seemslikeadream]

We have eighteen buildings covering ten city blocks. Our main building is four stories with a six-story distribution center and a four-story warehouse connected to it. Our other buildings are one or two stories. We have approximately 1,100 employees working in this ten block radius.

http://www.guard1.com/en/UserProfile_AssembliesOfGod.htm

[saltpoint]

1. Sterling example of fascist architecture.

[JenniferJuniper]

5. Yup....those structures

tell you all you need to know about these people.

[Warpy]

10. It's stunningly ugly with nothing at street level

to give it any sort of human scale.

How perfect.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Man oh man, religion is just one seriously successful business..

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. and I thought the Vatican was BIG!

when should religion be a money making business.

Jesus would turn in his heavenly resting place.

[Seen the light]

4. I've been there...its nickname is the "White Vatican" IIRC

I've also visited Evangel University...frightening place.

[Fuzz]

7. I've been there as well

:(

My father attended Valley Forge Bible College when Ashcroft Sr. was running the place.

[bananas]

6. Their national headquarters is a prison?

It's a correctional facility?

[Postman]

9. Except in here, they lock up your mind not your body.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Holy crap!! They remind me of the Jehovah's Witnesses here in Brooklyn

Thirty-three buildings located in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO make up the Watchtower Society’s complex. Most are residences for their 3,000 members, who receive apartments and meals in exchange for their services.

[kurth_]

11. What the fuck do they do inside?

The Vatican needs room for artwork and dead popes, but.. WTF.

[Vickers]

12. That's like the Ishtar of architecture.

Yikes.

[glinda]

13. More like Ish than Tar.

Wonder what they are watching for? More money to build another addition?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

14. How many psychos are in that monstrosity?

:hippie:

[Marlana]

15. That's in my city!

I did a bunch of LSD one night and took a swim in one of their fountains, but that was a long time ago. Seriously, the place is huge. The run all their church business and they have a book publisher, printing operation and warehouse there. This town is full of churches and we have at least three AG Bible Colleges, Evangel is the big one. I always thought they were nuts.

[Mimosa]

16. Makes the Pentagon look like Gaudi

Yikes. SCARY.