{"id":100168,"date":"2019-12-26T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/mosque-synagogue-and-church-being-built-together-in-abu-dhabi"},"modified":"2019-12-26T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T17:22:55","slug":"mosque-synagogue-and-church-being-built-together-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/mosque-synagogue-and-church-being-built-together-in-abu-dhabi","title":{"rendered":"Mosque, synagogue and church being built together in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsbzzs5B4G0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On September 20, the initial designs for the complex were presented at an event at the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan. British firm Adjaye Associates won the contract to design the center, which will consist of three large buildings arranged around a central garden, under which will sit a museum and education center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were led towards these powerful plutonic forms with a clear geometry, three cubes sitting on a plinth \u2014 though not aligned, they each have different orientations,\u201d Sir David Adjaye told <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/architecture\/david-adjaye-abrahamic-family-house-abu-dhabi-church-mosque-synagogue-09-23-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">designboom<\/a>. Each of the three buildings share a similar silhouette, but the facades have different architectural design and detailing, communicating the shared origins of the three religions, as well as their cultural and historical differences.<\/p>\n<p>Adjaye, who also designed the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and the National Museum of African American History in D.C., says he saw the garden, \u201cas a powerful metaphor, this safe space where community, connection and civility combine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, the initial designs for the complex were presented at an event at the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan. British firm Adjaye Associates won the contract to design the center, which will consist of three large buildings arranged around a central garden, under which will sit a museum and education center. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}