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By Philip Oltermann
The UK Guardian
. . . A group of Christians, Muslims and Jews is trying to crowdsource funds to build a place where they can all worship: Berlin’s “House of One” is aiming to become the world’s first building to combine a church, a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
The competition to design such a project was won by the local firm Kuehn Malvezzi in 2012. Their proposal was for a modernist structure in which the three religions could pray in three separate rooms. A fourth room with a 32m-high domed roof, joining the prayer rooms, would host regular discussions and meetings between the three communities. Click here to continue reading.