The Elijah Faith Institute approached SKOLNICK to design an interpretive master plan, architectural concept, and promotional materials for The Center of Hope. The Center is envisioned as a space of learning, a framework for meeting, an opportunity for friendship, a site for inspiration, a presentation of enlightenment and a place where prayer for peace can rise together from the faithful of all faiths and all peoples, in Jerusalem.
The new facility will include lecture halls for public lectures and conferences; an auditorium for public events and interreligious concerts; an exhibition hall where interreligious art exhibits can be hosted; meeting spaces for scholars’ seminars, interreligious think tanks, and for all interreligious activity that takes place in and around the cause of Jerusalem and the Holy Land; a museological display featuring the life of prayer in world religions; and inspiring prayer spaces where Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others will pray alongside one another.
