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Edward Jones Dome

The Edward Jones Dome is a 66,000 seat sports stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, and home of the St. Louis Rams NFL football team. It was constructed largely to lure an NFL team back to St. Louis, and to serve as a convention center. Completed in 1995, it was known as the Trans World Dome, after Trans World Airlines, until 2001, when TWA was acquired by American Airlines. The facility was then briefly known as the Dome at America's Center (America's Center being the adjacent convention facility) until the naming rights were acquired by Edward Jones, a brokerage house.

The Edward Jones Dome became the site of the biggest indoor gathering in United States history in 1999 when Pope John Paul II held mass in the stadium. Over 104,000 people attended the service.

In April 2005 the Edward Jones Dome will host the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Final Four; in 2007 the NCAA Men's Basketball St. Louis Regional; and in April 2009 the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship Final Four.

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