Origin from 2026
On 26 June 2026, Jehovah's Witnesses purchased a sixty eight acre property directly across the lake from their world headquarters in Warwick, New York, including a roughly four hundred thirty three thousand square foot office and data center built by IBM and later operated by its spinoff Kyndryl. The organization's own announcement named the tract the Blue Lake property for its position beside the headquarters campus, quoting United States spokesman Jason Hohl that it would provide additional flexibility for the faith's growing global operations. The purchase followed the same congregation's decades long expansion of its Warwick campus since relocating its world headquarters there from Brooklyn, and coincided with plans for a new media center nearby in Ramapo, New York.
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StatusEstablished marks the continued physical growth of the organization's own administrative and media infrastructure at Warwick, not a claim about congregation counts or preaching activity, which the organization's own separately published service year reports address. Connections
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Acre, Cities This source names Acre directly: "Witnesses purchased a sixty eight acre property directly across the lake from their world headquarters in Warwick, New York, including a roughly four hundred thirty three thousand square foot office..."
Source Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
This source names Global directly: "flexibility for the faith's growing global operations."
Source Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
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Source Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
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Closes a gap since 2022's citation of the European Court of Human Rights ruling against Russia's ban, moving the map from a legal ruling on the organization's standing abroad to its own continued institutional expansion at its Warwick world headquarters.
Source Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
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1. Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (jw.org), 2026View the Source Jehovah's Witnesses Expand Warwick Campus With Purchase of Former IBM Data Center (Warwick Valley Dispatch)
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