Washington DC-based photographer Melissa Golden visits a religious theme park in Orlando called the Holy Land Experience.

Last summer, I made a pilgrimage of sorts to a place I’d seen in a movie.  I caught half of Bill Maher’s “Religulous” and saw a scene in which he interviews a man who plays Jesus at a theme park in Orlando called the Holy Land Experience.  I was stupefied that such a place existed, not too far away, at that.  I had to go.

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