Tour Churches of Scientology Around the World on Google Earth

Front-page news in cities around the world, Churches of Scientology around the world have been opening the doors on fantastic new buildings – gorgeous new churches erected to better service their communities.

And now, for the virtual traveler, you can experience many of these buildings in their local surrounds using the ever-amazing Google Earth.   An intrepid Google SketchUp modeler named “dom” has been modeling a number of these new churches in SketchUp and placing them on Google Earth for you to virtually tour.   Make sure you have Google Earth on your computer, and then check out some of the churches below to see what I mean!

Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C. 

Click the above image to view in Google Earth (KMZ format). Or click here to see the model.

Church of Scientology of Melbourne, Australia

Click to see in Google Earth

Church of Scientology of Moscow

Click to view in Google Earth

 

Photos: New Church of Scientology of Moscow (Саентологии Москвы)

Russian government, religious and human rights dignitaries joined more than 2,000 Scientologists to mark the grand opening of the Russian Federation’s premier Church of Scientology of Moscow.

The new home for the Church of Scientology of Moscow was dedicated before more than 2,000 Scientologists, Russian government, religious and human rights dignitaries. The ceremonies marked the grand opening of the first major Church of Scientology in the Russian Federation.

New Church of Scientology of Moscow Opens a Mile from Red Square

Standing in Moscow’s central Garden Ring, just a mile from Red Square, the Church of Scientology has opened the doors of its first Ideal Org in the Russian Federation – the new Church of Scientology of Moscow.

Commemorating this new Scientology Church, Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the religion, declared: “It has been said that Russia cannot be understood with the intellect, that it cannot be measured by any common standard and that it can only be believed in. Well, let Russia now believe this: The Church that now stands in Moscow possesses a technology that is all but synonymous with the human spirit. It is a technology to bring forth the goodness in people and the greatness they are destined to achieve. It is a technology that is both kind and strong. It is a technology for freedom and wisdom.”

The new Church of Scientology of Moscow is located at:

Саентологическая Церковь Москвы

9 Таганская ул.
Москва, 109147

Phone: +7 (495) 978-5020

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Or see this link to see the map on Yandex.

Scientology Organizations Around the World Blog: 2010 in Review

Following was an auto-generated stats report on this blog, done up automatically by WordPress.  I thought it was quite good, and gave a quite good summary of the past year.   One of many blogs I’m keeping up right now on Scientology – but definitely some of my favorite subject matter!  Also – one more reason I love WordPress.  As a Scientologist, I’m sure you can imagine how I’m totally in agreement with how much work WordPress puts into statistics! 

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

 

In 2010, there were 20 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 88 posts. There were 201 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 62mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was April 29th with 352 views. The most popular post that day was Grand Opening of New Ideal Church of Scientology in Los Angeles.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, reddit.com, facebook.com, and digg.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for buenos aires, golden era productions, scientology church, ideal org, and ideal orgs.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Grand Opening of New Ideal Church of Scientology in Los Angeles April 2010
1 Like on WordPress.com,

2

Argentina Recognizes Scientology as a Religion December 2008
4 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

3

What is an Ideal Church of Scientology – an “Ideal Org”? June 2007
16 comments and 2 Likes on WordPress.com

4

Photos: Stunning new Church of Scientology of Las Vegas February 2010
10 comments

5

Jaw-Dropping Video Tour of the Golden Era Productions Facility August 2010
2 Likes on WordPress.com

Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C., on a Snowy Day

Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C., on a Snowy Day

Originally uploaded by jetteroheller

The Founding Church of Scientology in Washington D.C., opened up by Mr. David Miscavige in 1995.

On this particular day, DC had only gotten around 5 inches of snow. However, as I think there’s only 2 snowplows in the entire DC-Baltimore metropolitan area, it was enough snow to shut just about everything down to the point where not even Starbucks was open!