September 11, 1893
The first World Parliament of Religions opened in Chicago, as part of the World’s Fair. More than seven thousand people attended the closing session on the seventeenth day. Among the Parliament’s goals were to bring together in conference, for the first time in history, the leading representatives of the great historic religions of the world and to show to men, in the must impressive way, what and how many important truths the various religions hold and teach in common.
