Editing Edmond, Oklahoma (section)

==Arts and culture==
The city of Edmond is making efforts to promote public art with murals, stained glass, and steel sculptures. On a portion of Main Street, statuary lines nearly every corner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://visitedmondok.com/public-art.php|title=Oklahoma history cast in bronze |access-date=October 18, 2007 |last=Edmond Convention and Visitors Bureau |year=2007 }}</ref> On July 4, 2007, the city inaugurated a bronze statue of [[Nannita Daisey|Nannita R.H. Daisey]], believed to be the first woman laying claim on Oklahoma land in the first (1889) land run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edmondsun.com/local/local_story_072094452.html |title=Oklahoma history cast in bronze |access-date=October 18, 2007|last=Houghton |first=Jaclyn |date=March 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928015259/http://www.edmondsun.com/local/local_story_072094452.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> In 2015 the Dave McGary sculpture of Chief Touch the Clouds was relocated to Edmond from Houston's [[Astrodome]]. The 18-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide sculpture is located on Second Street at the entrance of the University of Central Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite web |title=Touch the Clouds statue installation scheduled for Sunday |date=May 21, 2015 |access-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628162956/http://www.edmondsun.com/news/local_news/touch-the-clouds-statue-installation-scheduled-for-sunday/article_bd186ec8-fff3-11e4-ace1-63f78ab3469f.html|url=http://www.edmondsun.com/news/local_news/touch-the-clouds-statue-installation-scheduled-for-sunday/article_bd186ec8-fff3-11e4-ace1-63f78ab3469f.html |archive-date=June 28, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Edmond residents have access to 57 Protestant and three Catholic congregations, six [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Latter-day Saint]] congregations, one [[Unitarian Universalist]] church, one [[mosque|Islamic mosque]], and one [[Haziratu'l-Quds]] for followers of the [[Baháʼí Faith]].

A 163-foot-tall cross sits at the Edmond Campus of [[Life.Church]] on the corner of State Highway 66 (also called Second Street) and the I-35 Service Road. The church, known at the time as MetroChurch, fought the city of Edmond to erect the cross, which the planning commission ostensibly did not want to allow because they considered it a billboard.

The movies ''[[Rudderless]]'' (2014), ''[[American Underdog]]'' (2021), and ''[[Reagan (2024 film)|Reagan]]'' (2024) were partially shot in Edmond.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/movies/before-killers-of-the-flower-moon-premiere-here-are-55-other-shot-in-oklahoma-films/article_37eb0eda-ec54-11ed-84b1-035e3aff0e83.html |title=Before 'Killers of the Flower Moon' premiere, here are 55 other shot-in-Oklahoma films|date=May 13, 2023 |publisher=Jimmie Tramel, Tulsa World, May 13, 2023|accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>