Article 2WCST The Cheesecake Factory has bankrolled a huge temple in an unincorporated California town

The Cheesecake Factory has bankrolled a huge temple in an unincorporated California town

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Saranap is an unincorporated, loosely governed town in Contra Costa County in Northern California; it is home to a 66,000 square foot temple built by a religion called Sufism Reoriented, which has little to do with traditional Sufiism, being dedicated to the idea that an Indian man called Meher Baba was the reincarnation of Buddha and Christ and God on earth and that he will return in 700 years. (more")

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