EDMOND—Armstrong Auditorium staff members have calculated final attendance numbers for the Seals of Jeremiah’s Captors Discovered exhibit that brought dozens of First Temple period artifacts from Jerusalem to central Oklahoma. The exhibit featured two clay seal impressions that belonged to Judean princes Jehucal and Gedaliah, officers who persecuted the Prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in Jeremiah 38.

Between its opening on Jan. 15, 2012, and its closing on Oct. 31, 2015, the exhibit hosted guided tours for an average of 23 visitors per week, for a total of 4,592 visitors.

Armstrong International Cultural Foundation exhibit coordinator Edwin Trebels estimates that, besides the 4,592 non-Philadelphia Church of God members who visited the exhibit, a large number of Church members also visited.

“Having been here during the Feast and for a lot of the tours, I would estimate we had about 2,000 pcg members, including their families, visit the exhibit,” he said. “Considering the members of the pcg are scattered worldwide, this is a significant number and shows how the exhibit served the community as well as the Church.”

Armstrong International Cultural Foundation marketing director Shane Granger reported that while the exhibit was in place, a total of 28,356 seats were filled at performing arts series concerts at the auditorium.

“There’s no way to know for sure of course,” Granger said, “but the number of individuals who saw the exhibit before or after concerts could have easily been roughly a third of the total count. So we might have had as many as 10,000, in addition to the pcg members and the 4,592 who took guided tours during the week.”