First Freedom Center

The First Freedom Center is a charitable situated in Richmond, Virginia. Its main goal is to honor and teach about flexibility of religion and soul as d in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Situated in the Shockoe Slip area of downtown Richmond, the Center sits on the site where Jefferson's statute was instituted into law by the Virginia General Assembly on January 16, 1786. Championed through the Virginia General Assembly by James Madison, the statute was the primary law of supreme religious flexibility instituted in the youthful country and filled in as a format for the religion provisions of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would be sanctioned five years after the fact.