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The Holy City of the Wichitas is located within the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. This Holy City started as an Easter Passion Play in the Wichita Mountains in 1926. The impetus behind both the pageant and city was the late Reverend Anthony Mark Wallock who was born in 1890 in Austria. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at two years of age and after completing ministerial studies at the Garret Biblical Institute, the Rev Wallock served at several churches before coming to Lawton, home to Fort Sill, as pastor of the First Congregational Church. In 1926, he took his Sunday school class up a mountain where a tableau of the Resurrection was presented. The popularity of this service led it to become an annual event. In 1927, the service became nonsectarian, and was referred to by the Lawton Constitution as "Oklahoma's Oberammergau."
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