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International Visiting Fellows Sister Cities Program is a three-year sister city program which aims to enrich the interfaith work and networks within each of the participating cities: New York City, Barcelona, and Glasgow. Delegates from the participating cities share best-practices in the area of interfaith work and civic participation.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower laying the Interchurch Center's cornerstone on October 12, 1958. The center was built in 1958 with gifts by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other donors, together with a consortium of religious denominations, with the objective of encouraging cooperative work among such diverse religious groups as the Orthodox, African-American, and mainstream Protestant ...
It has been listed for this purpose on the website of the Office of the Mayor of New York City. [10] The church center charges a rental fee for use of the chapel for weddings. [10] People married at the chapel include then-US Senator Joe Biden (who would eventually become US president) and educator Jill Biden, in 1977. [14]
Park51 (originally named Cordoba House) was a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The developers hoped to promote an interfaith dialogue within the greater community.
New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama, and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater [3]) is a performing arts center at 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
The Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center of New York is a branch of the Ramakrishna Order of India, founded in 1933 by Swami Nikhilananda. After Nikhilananda's death in 1973, the center was headed by Swami Adiswarananda until the latter's death in 2007. Currently, Swami Yuktatmananda heads the center.
Isaac is the author of a forthcoming book, entitled “Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza,” which, according to the publisher’s description, makes the case that ...
In 2017, MBB Architects and Structure Tone, Landmark Facilities Group, and P.W. Grosser completed a new geothermal system under St. Patrick's Cathedral, believed to be the largest in New York City. [ 194 ] [ 195 ] The gardens adjoining the cathedral to the north and south were excavated for the system's construction, and they were replanted ...