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Ryman Auditorium (originally Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed Grand Ole Opry House for a period) is a historic 2,362-seat live-performance venue and museum located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in the downtown core of Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in the 1800s, one of the earliest known Roman amphitheatres. It is uncertain when and where the first amphitheatres were built. There are records attesting to temporary wooden amphitheatres built in the Forum Romanum for gladiatorial games from the second century BC onwards, and these may be the origin of the architectural form later expressed in stone. [5]
Major Eugene Castner Lewis was the director of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and it was at his suggestion that a reproduction of the Parthenon be built in Nashville to serve as the centerpiece of Tennessee's Centennial Celebration. Lewis also served as the chief civil engineer for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
The Ryman also saw the birth of bluegrass within its walls with a music-history-making performance from Earl Scruggs in '45. In 1956, Johnny Cash joined the Opry; in 1960, Patsy Cline came on board.
It is a great theatre, long mistaken for an amphitheatre, but clearly D-shaped from aerial photos. The actual amphitheatre lies under the church in the village of Agioi Deka, built over the arena where the 10 saints were martyred. The shape of the arena can be made out in surrounding buildings. [2] Aquincum: Budapest: Hungary
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Kyriakoudes ...
Tennessee and Pacific Railroad (Lebanon-Nashville) begins operating. Fisk University Jubilee Singers, [3] Library Association, [8] and Nashville Saddlery Company established. [18] 1873 – Vanderbilt University established. [3] 1874 – Hebrew temple and First Cumberland Presbyterian Church built. [5] 1876 – Nashville Banner newspaper begins ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. Capital city of Tennessee, United States "Nashville" and "Music City" redirect here. For other uses, see Nashville (disambiguation) and Music City (disambiguation). State capital and consolidated city-county in Tennessee, United States Nashville State capital and consolidated city-county ...