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A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford , then president of the Watch Tower Society , for a building in Hawaii . [ 1 ]
On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Alsterdorf quarter, Hamburg, Germany. The shooter, identified as Philipp Fusz, entered the building during a service and opened fire, killing six adults and an unborn child, and injuring eight others. Fusz, a former Jehovah's Witness, killed himself ...
The Jehovah's Witnesses are building a new Kingdom Hall south of the Des Moines International Airport, using a team made up entirely of volunteers. Work began earlier this month on the facility ...
A Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Lofoten, Norway Worship at a Kingdom Hall in Portugal Meetings for worship and study are held at Kingdom Halls , and are open to the public. Witnesses are assigned to a congregation in which "territory" they reside.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are part of an international church, founded in the United States in the 19th century and headquartered in Warwick, New York. It claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 ...
MUNICH — A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in the German city of Hamburg killed seven people, as well as the suspected gunman, police said Friday.
Former headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, [24] under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads, and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body.
Jehovah’s Witnesses will resume their trademark door-to-door ministry beginning Sept. 1. ... Houses of worship (called Kingdom Halls) were reopened on April 1, witnessing in public places ...