Remey, Charles Mason

Charles Mason Remey was an architect, author, and lecturer. Born in Burlington, Iowa on May 15, 1874, he studied at Cornell University and at ʹEcole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He was an architecture instructor, 1906-1908, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1908-1910. He was appointed to design the Bahʹa'ʹi Temple to be built upon Mount Carmel; was a Patron in Perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; author of books on the Bahʹa'ʹi faith and temples, travel in the Orient, and architecture; and founder and organizer of the movement to build the National Church and Shrine of the United States of America in Washington, D.C., to carry out George Washington's intent to build a nonsectarian national shrine for national purposes such as public prayer, thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.