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A Rest Home for Those Who Gave Their Lives to a Movement

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A Rest Home for Those Who Gave Their Lives to a Movement

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Casa de Repouso da Grande Harmonia is a rest home in Ibiuna, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, run under Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil's Cabinet of Social Assistance and Philanthropy. Its residents are not the general elderly public: the home exists specifically for elders recognized for lives of dedication to the Seicho-no-Ie movement, a criterion for admission that ties the institution directly to service within the religion rather than to age or need alone.

The home was registered as a legal entity on 12 April 2002, seven years before it opened its doors, and was inaugurated on 14 March 2009 with fourteen residential units built for a capacity of twenty four residents. It provides physician, physiotherapy, nutrition, dental, psychology and social work services alongside recreational and spiritual activities, a service list closer to an assisted-living facility than to a simple retirement home.

The seven year gap between legal registration and inauguration suggests a deliberate, unhurried building process, one Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil carried through to completion under its own Cabinet of Social Assistance and Philanthropy rather than an outside operator.

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Source Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil: Own Website, "Casa de Repouso da Grande Harmonia" (sni.org.br)Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil
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Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil: Own Website, "Casa de Repouso da Grande Harmonia" (sni.org.br)
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