2O20 NHL WINTER CLASSIC Jan. 1 Dallas Stars vs. Nashville Predators Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas nhl.com LOCKHEED MARTIN ARMED FORCES BOWL Jan. 4 Teams TBD Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth armedforcesbowl.com
EDUCATION SMU’s Guildhall is ranked as the No. 1 grad school for game design in the world. Collegiate varsity esports squads and programs are growing: TEXAS WESLEYAN offers scholarships to esports athletes. UNT is home of the Nest esports design space. UTA has the first esports club, founded in 2010. UTD took 1st and 2nd place in the inaugural League of Legends tournament.
WINTER 2019
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PHOTO: VISIT DALLAS
FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS
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DALLAS COWBOYS VS. WASHINGTON REDSKINS Dec. 29 AT&T Stadium dallascowboys.com
CHUA DAO QUANG BUDDHIST TEMPLE, GARLAND
PHOTO: FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS
GOODYEAR COTTON BOWL CLASSIC Dec. 28 Team TBD AT&T Stadium in Arlington cottonbowl.com
CULTURE
DALLAS STARS VS. CALGARY FLAMES Dec. 22 American Airlines Center nhl.com DALLAS MAVERICKS VS. SAN ANTONIO SPURS Dec. 26 American Airlines Center mavs.com
CHAPEL OF THANKSGIVING
CATHEDRAL SHRINE OF THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
RELIGION
The Dallas Region is a marvelous mix of people of all faiths, Christian and non-Christian alike. Members of every Protestant group will find church homes here, as well as Catholics, Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Unitarian Universalists. NonChristian faiths represented here include Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as smaller groups such as Bahá’í Faith, Jain, Sikh, Tao, and Zoroastrian.
> MegaFest, a familyoriented inspirational festival led by Bishop T.D. Jakes, drew 80,000 attendees from more than 30 countries to Dallas in August 2017. > Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in the Arts District portion of downtown Dallas, has the largest Latino parish congregation in the nation.
> Approximately two dozen Buddhist temples are located in the region, among them the Kadampa Meditation Center, offering meditation classes and workshops.
> Temple Emanu-El, founded in 1875, was the first Jewish congregation in North Texas and is the largest reform synagogue in the South and Southwest United States.
> There are five Sikh temples—among them the Gurudwara Singh Sabha in Richardson.
> Dallas hosts the “world’s largest gay church,” Cathedral of Hope, with more than 4,000 members.
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