Arabian dancers, 'Last Supper menus' in Moscow theme park plan. (News Scan).
A Chechen real estate mogul Mogul: see Mughal. , an Israeli exporter and a Russian poet
have come together in a grand plan to build a Bible theme park in
Moscow. Under the plan, children will be able to visit a replica of the
Church of the Nativity The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Arabic, كنيسة المهد) is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. and play in an Egyptian fortress while their
parents taste the "dishes from the Last Supper Last Supper, in the New Testament, meal taken by Jesus and his disciples on the eve of the passion. Jesus broke bread and passed a cup of wine among the disciples, identifying himself with the bread and the wine and linking the meal to his impending death on the " and enjoy an
Arabian bath. The park, billed as an entertainment Bible Land, is to
open its doors in 2005 and occupy 25 hectares in western Moscow. (ENI)
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