Embracing the capital’s diversity, the Abrahamic Family House project has been launched as part of the Year Of Tolerance. The project consists of a church, mosque and synagogue being built in one location and is expected to be complete by the year 2022. 

Designed by renowned British architect, Sir David Adjaye, the project is said to have three main buildings which lead to a central garden which will hold a museum and a center for education. The three buildings will house their respective religions and take inspiration for the interiors and style. 

“There has never been a building that has the three faiths in one form. I wanted to see if we could make a building that has the unique experience of each of the faiths but to connect them all with the one device. And that is the garden,” Sir David Adjaye told The National. 

The mosque will be built facing the Kabbah in Makkah, while the church’s altar will point east towards the sun and the synagogue’s podium and Torah will face Jerusalem. 

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