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* One of the U. S .' s longest running passion plays is held at the Holy City of the Wichitas located within the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

The Holy City started as an Easter Passion Play in the Wichita Mountains in 1926.

The impetus behind both the pageant and city was the Reverend Anthony Mark Wallock.

He was born in 1890 in Austria.

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.