MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
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House of One
Unique inter-faith place of learning, worship and reflection to be built in Berlin
(L to R) Main hall under the dome; southeastern elevation on Kleine Gertraudenstrasse; roof-top loggia
[Visualisations by Kuehn Malvezzi architects]
WILL STONE applauds the anniversary tour of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Madchester icons, Shaun and Bez
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
THE COMMONALITY shared by the world’s principal religions — Islam, Judaism and Christianity — is the recognition of Abraham as the founding prophet of all three.
Its physical manifestation is the stupendous Temple Mount in Jerusalem, venerated as a holy place by Muslims, Jews and Christians alike.
This ancient convergence of separate faiths is set to acquire a momentous new symbolism in Berlin at the end of May when the foundation stone is laid for the House of One (HoO), an inter-religious place of learning, worship and reflection.
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