The new First Freedom Center located at 14th and Cary streets in Downtown Richmond. The center’s mission is to commemorate and educate about freedom of religion and conscience as proclaimed in Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The statute led to the religious clauses in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe tours the First Freedom Center in Downtown Richmond on Jan. 16, 2015, National Religious Freedom Day.

Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott of Newport News at the opening of the First Freedom Center in Richmond’s Downtown on Jan. 16, 2015, National Religious Freedom Day. Photo by James Haskins/Richmond Free Press.