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is a town in Columbia County, New York, U.S., 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Albany. In 1910, 1,378 people lived in New Lebanon, New York. The population was 2,454 at the 2000 census.
is in the northeast part of Columbia County. US 20 crosses the town.
New Lebanon was the main spiritual home of the Shakers. The Mount Lebanon Shaker Society at New Lebanon, NY, had 609 members in 1864. The most historic structures now belong to the Shaker Museum and Library. Some of the other surviving buildings are home to the Darrow School. Still others have been converted into a Sufi retreat center called the
. The latter is the former residence of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan may he rest in peace, and is now the home of the current Pir of the Sufi Order International, Pir Zia Inayat Khan.