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Earlier this month we reported that the Museum of the Bible had chosen D.C. over Dallas and New York, and now the museum has found itself a place to display its 40,000 heavenly artifacts.

The Huffington Post reports today that the museum will be located in a building across the street from the Federal Center SW Metro station:

The Museum of the Bible, a nonprofit group planning the, as yet, unnamed museum, announced it will be housed at 300 D Street, SW, in what is now the Washington Design Center, a series of showrooms of luxury home furnishings.

“Our intent is for this museum to showcase both the Old and New Testaments, arguably the world’s most significant pieces of literature, through a non-sectarian, scholarly approach that makes the history, scholarship and impact of the Bible on virtually every facet of society accessible to everyone,” said Mark DeMoss, a member of the Bible museum’s board.

The deal for the building was valued at $50 million, and the museum is expected to open in 2016.