The Buddhist Church in New Denver was founded in 1943, by Sensuki Mori, Saburo Okada, and Tokimi Kiyono. It was built among the small shacks that housed the Japanese people living in an [interment] camp just outside of New Denver, a small village in the West Kootenay Mountains. The area chosen for this security camp was once filled with fruit trees, hence the name of this section of town, the 'Orchard'.
