Actually, Precious Moments was built in 1989, but what it has accomplished since then is staggering. To say thank you for their incredible popularity, creator Samuel Butcher created the chapel, a free attraction. The crowded Precious Moments complex also houses a museum, a convention center, a series of gift shops. Tour groups proceed from the gift shop mall up a cement walk, lined with waist-high baby angel statues, to the heavy carved doors of the Precious Moments Chapel. The guide tells the story behind Butcher's labors, and helps the crowd interpret each work of art.
People reverently look up at magical scenes covering nearly every surface.
At the back wall of the Chapel is its defining mural, Hallelujah Square . It depicts a new dead child being welcomed to heaven by Timmy Angel . Others in Hallelujah Square romp and frolic. In the exact center of the mural is a ministering Christ. He is the only adult depicted in the chapel.