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Known as the "Mother Church of Country Music," the Ryman Auditorium is a 2,362-seat venue that served as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974. Its exposed brick walls and stained-glass windows, remnants of its original 1892 life as the Union Gospel Tabernacle, give it an acoustics quality that artists consistently rank among the world's finest.
Captain Tom Ryman, a riverboat magnate, funded the tabernacle in 1892 after a revival meeting conversion. After his death in 1904, the venue was renamed in his honour. It fell into disrepair in the 1970s but was restored and reopened in 1994.