A new way to foster religious tolerance? Put everyone under one roof.
Sep 13, 2021
3 minutes
Betül Samhal is a practicing Muslim in “Christian country,” as she puts it. She’s found her tightknit Muslim community in Berlin where she lives, but says she’s never intimately known many Christians or Jews. Nor has she ever had the chance to talk with them about religion.
“People typically avoid people of other faiths,” says Ms. Samhal, an elementary school teacher. “People either can’t or don’t want to understand each other.”
Enter Berlin’s House of One, the world’s first planned structure that will house a synagogue, a church, and a mosque under one roof.
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