In 2002 Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina, husband and wife purchased an old Masonic Temple and transferred it into a Temple of Arts. They named it “Museum of Modern Renaissance”.

This building has a unique history. Here in 1920 Paramahansa Yogananda made his historic speech, introducing a new modified conception of Yoga for the western world. Another word here is the birthplace of yoga on American soil. Here “Self-realization Fellowship” was founded and now “Museum of Modern Renaissance” physically shows the idea of self-realization in action.

All three floors of this building are covered with frescos like murals showing characters from myths, legends, fairy tales from different cultures and nations. Besides creating all these artworks, they wrote several books about the connection between artistic process and philosophical conception of ancient mythological stories. This process took them more than twenty years of hard work in their journey creating this colorful and magical world.