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| | Buddhism - Jodo Shinsu - Buddhism Comes to Seattle and King County |
 | | Baptist, Buddhist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and YMCA congregations, as well as the newly formed Seattle Japanese IBusinessmen's] Association, Nihonjinkai, took to the streets in a then seemingly hopeless effort to dissuade lumber handlers and railroaders from "undesirable moral development," that is, from patronizing saloons and prostitution houses. |
 | | Seattle has made giant strides and is prospering as a center of trade. |
 | | When the City of Seattle bought the church property in 1940 to use as a part of the Yesler Terrace Housing Project, the Sangha built a new structure that was barely opened before the Buddhists were exiled to concentration camps in Idaho. |
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