If you spend $4 million to construct a building, you will likely spend over $13 million to operate it within that 40-year period.

The congregation approved plans in 2000 to construct a building containing an educational facility with administrative offices and a library and chapel on the newly acquired land.

In all, over 1,500 workers helped construct the building.

During daytime, common citizens employed on the project would construct the building.

The final cost to construct the building in 1917 was $186,477.28.