{"id":44718,"date":"2014-06-22T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_magazine_berlin_house_of_one_the_first_church-mosque-synagogue\/"},"modified":"2014-06-22T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:00:34","slug":"bbc_magazine_berlin_house_of_one_the_first_church-mosque-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44718","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Magazine) Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof.<\/p>\n<p>An architecture competition has been held and the winner chosen. The striking design is for a brick building with a tall, square central tower. Off the courtyard below will be the houses of worship for the three faiths &#8211; the synagogue, the church and the mosque. It is to occupy a prominent site &#8211; Petriplatz &#8211; in the heart of Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The location is highly significant, according to one of the three religious leaders involved, Rabbi Tovia Ben Chorin. &#8220;From my Jewish point of view the city where Jewish suffering was planned is now the city where a centre is being built by the three monotheistic religions which shaped European culture,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-27872551\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44718\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,97,200,478,161,426,429,183,154,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-architecture","category-europe","category-germany","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-judaism","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}