Show FIRST BUDDHIST CHURCH IN THE U. U S. S TO BE CONSTRUCTED S SEATTLE ATTLE Wash Walh March 27 Within 27 Within the next fortnight work ork will hI bo begun beun on what will bo ho the Iho only Buddhist church churchIn In n tho the United States owned b by a a. Buddhist organization tho building standing on ground also owned bv by h the tho society The Th ground has been purchased cd at a C cost approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately and the tho plans have havo been een drawn for tor or a edifice G. G Nakai time the pastor of the tho Seattle Japanese Japanese Japa- Japa nese icso society Is now In J Japan pon and when ho 10 returns ho he will bring with him ulna an mage image of or Budda Dudda for which wile a has hag b been baen en reserved In th the th s chapel and which will be bo set up and used In the services of ot the eol society t The Tho plans for tor tho the temple Include a gymnasium gymnasium gym gym- shower baths and und other r apparatus apparatus atus a kitchen dining room loom library and twenty seven living hiving rooms A school for or young oung men mon will b be conducted In the building build build- inS inS' ng where th tho he students will be given a n general education Practically all of ot tho the adherents of ot this Buddhist society are Japanese but It also includes those thole of or other nationalities who are devotees ote s of ot Bu Budda d the pr president of or the society being a woman of ot Scandinavian ian extraction Selma Sel- Sel ma Anderson |