{"id":9993,"date":"2019-09-28T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2019-09-28T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:24:20","slug":"mosque-church-and-synagogue-to-share-same-space-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9993","title":{"rendered":"Mosque, Church and Synagogue to Share Same Space in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders gathered at the United Nations, the United Arab Emirates laid out its vision for religious harmony, unveiling plans for an interfaith complex in the country&#8217;s capital that will house a mosque, a church and a synagogue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Commissioned by the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity, The Abrahamic Family House will serve as a place of individual worship but also for inter-religious dialogue and exchange.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The complex will be located on Saadiyat Island, near the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and designed by award-winning architect David Adjaye. The design incorporates worship spaces for each religion as well as a shared space for collaboration and informal gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative comes as the UAE celebrates its Year of Tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Bruce Lustig, a senior rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation and a Higher Committee member, said the project sets an example for the world at a critical time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"el__image--fullwidth js__image--fullwidth\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders gathered at the United Nations, the United Arab Emirates laid out its vision for religious harmony, unveiling plans for an interfaith complex in the country&#8217;s capital that will house a mosque, a church and a synagogue. Commissioned by the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity, The Abrahamic Family House will serve as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1460,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}