First it let its banks fail rather than bail them out at taxpayers’ expense.

Now it’s allowing a congregation of some 2,400 pagans to build the first main temple of their religion in 1,000 years.

The 350-square-meter building, which will house 250 people, is expected to be completed in the summer of 2016. The building will be constructed around the path of the sun and the sacred numbers of 9 and 432,000 are used in the design, mbl.is reports.

I’m not a big fan of organized religion, given what certain of its practitioners are doing to other people these days, but this seems to be as much cultural as religious. It’s certainly interesting.