Dream of 3 faiths worshipping in one building meets reality in Berlin
Its designers and leaders hope it will be used by Jewish, Christian and Muslim members as a place to pray, worship, gather and, perhaps above all, host a dialogue among their respective religions and with society at large. An artistic rendering of the House of One design in Berlin. Design by Kuehn Malvezzi, photo by Ulruich Schwarz, courtesy House of One
February 15, 2021
The concept could be profoundly simple or particularly complex.
For Berlin’s “House of One,” it’s turning out to be a bit of both.
churmosqagogue” by one Reddit user, the House of One “the world’s first hybrid church-mosque-synagogue” will break ground in Berlin on May 27, 2021.
The client met her consultants the way practically everyone has had to do in 2020. On a computer screen.
One by one, faces popped up on Microsoft Teams screens on a Tuesday morning in December, and the client, Salina Greene, gushed: “I’m seeing my consultants for the first time. This is exciting!”
Greene opened a meeting that had a two-fold purpose.
First was hearing what these “consultants,” a trio of University of Nebraska at Omaha MBA students, had to say about hate and extremist group presence in Omaha and the entities that exist to counter that presence and prevent violence. Greene was still new to town, having uprooted from Washington, D.C., to take a new job as regional prevention coordinator for Homeland Security’s Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (OTVTP).