This document presents a design for a multicultural center bringing together Christians and Muslims. It includes conference rooms for discussion of shared moral teachings, a food court celebrating different cultural cuisines, a trading exchange for economic exchange, and a children's area for community building. Quotes from the Quran and Bible are presented showing similarities between Islamic and Christian perspectives on prophets, the significance of food, birth, and life's cycle. The overall goal is to foster greater understanding between the two faiths through educational and religious programming.

1. PROMOTING PEACE
Between Muslims and Christians
Building for Awareness
The important aspects of solving the conflicts
that arise between apposing religions is by
discovering similarities between them. Over
centuries, religions have been independent
through the people who give name to them. In
this, uniting them together is the greatest
achievement for understanding faith and further
creating peace among religious people.

2. MUSLIM LAST SUPPER
What is the significance between both the Prophet's messages?
This piece symbolizes how
Muhammad, the profit for
Muslims, and Jesus the
profit for Christians, are
here for man to send a
message and create unity
under their God.
Jesus and his disciples had
a feast on Passover to
honor the Sabbath day; but
through himself as a
messenger of God.
Muhammad brought
himself forth as the same
prophet and a person
under God as a bringer of
peace for man.
“Therefore they gathered
them together, and filled
twelve baskets with the
fragments of the
five barley loaves, which
remained over and above
unto them that had eaten. Photo of a short video of Muslims on Passover day
Recreating Da Vinci’s Last Supper.
Then those men, when they
(SmArt Museum, Chicago IL)
had seen the miracle that
Jesus did, said, This is of a
truth that prophet that
should come into the
world.” (John 6: 13-14)

3. The Conference Room
A place for discussion
Major room #1…
For my building’s design, there will be a
conference room to hold meetings and
discussions along a multicultural feast.
Between Muslim and Christians/Jews alike,
there can take place similar discussions of
morals in life and connections between man
and their religion’s meaning.
The importance of this is to connect
philosophical thinking and personal morals
into their religion as their guide to
understanding and having compassion for
human wellness.

4. FOOD
How is food conveyed as an important symbol in Muslim and Christian religion?
This piece conveys an
important message of the
secular importance and
beauty that food is to man.
In Muslim religion and
Christian religion, food is
often used to connect
philosophy and man to the
awareness of life in its pure
forms.
This is done on Muslim holy
days and Christian/Jew
holy days when giving
thanks to the maker’s food
(Allah and God)
"It is He Who sends down
water from the sky. From it
you drink and from it come
the shrubs among which
you graze your herds. And
by it He makes crops grow
for you and olives and
dates and grapes and fruit
of every kind. There is Still Life with Fruit and Flowers on a Draped Ledge
certainly a Sign in that for Maker: Michiel Simons ,Dutch
people who reflect. (Quran
16: 10-11)”
1620-1673 (SmArt Museum, Chicago IL)

5. The Food Court
An area for multicultural exchange through the engagement of food.
Major room #2…
In this area feature for my building, this will
host various restaurants and food preparation
techniques per restaurant to serve as a
connection between Christian and Muslim
visitors. This area compliments the
conference rooms where these connections
are made humble through conversational
exchange. This food can be hosted as an
internal and external feature for visitors who
with to put themselves in another culture
through food differences/preparation of. One
can gain incite on how these differences span
over the ways food impact their regions and
lifestyles.

6. Man and Prophets
What makes a man a prophet of extraordinary influence?
This piece was made in
light of an event taken
place in the New
Testament, where Christ
wipes his face as a human
of flesh before leaving to
Calvary. The angels are
symbolic for his spirit,
while his impression in the
cloth (his face) is that of
his body.
Both Christ and Muhammad
were prophets of flesh and
blood. Christ did not
propose himself as a being
above man or God, but a
gift from God for man.
Muhammad and Christ
proposed to not be
worshipped as a God, but
taken as enlightenment
from their
messages/teachings for
man.
“Say: I do not say to you, I have
with me the treasures of Allah,
Sudarium Displayed by Two Angels
nor do I know the unseen, nor do Maker: Albrecht Dürer, German
I say to you that I am an angel; I
do not follow aught save that
1471-1528 (SmArt Museum, Chicago IL)
which is revealed to me. Say: Are
the blind and the seeing one
alike? Do you not then reflect?"
(Qur’an 6: 50)

7. The Trading Exchange
An area for people to trade items with merchants for other goods.
Major room #3…
This is a floor dedicated to merchants in
shops selling goods by trading with the
public for other goods. This can either be
through currency or item exchange between
Christians and Muslims.
This has significance for representing the
earthly requirements of human beings, and
its connection to each other through goods
and services. This teaches the practice of
self awareness as a human being in trading
for goods to profit from or to resell for uses
by it’s buyers.

8. Life in its Cycle of Birth and Rebirth
How is the life of man in birth conveyed in the Qur’an and the Bible?
In the Christian and Muslim
faith, the birth of a human
being was blessed through
their gods. The dogma of
these religions connects
itself to the creation of
human life. This is equally
important in both faiths as
a connector to
earthly/heavenly things.
Both Muslims and
Christians alike share the
same outlook on their lives
and the world through
dogma faith/teachings.
The Birth Bowl to the right
was used by European
Christians to use for
food/goods unto the child’s
mother for respect.
“[He] then formed the drop
into a clot and formed the
clot into a lump and formed
the lump into bones and Birth Bowl (Ciottola puerperile)
clothed the bones in flesh; Workshop: Orazio Fontana
and then brought him into Italian (Urbino), c. 1510-1571 (SmArt Museum, Chicago IL)
being as another creature.
Blessed be Allah, the Best
of Creators!” (Qur'an,
23:14)

9. The Children’s Recreational Area
An area for Christian and Muslim children/mothers to commune.
Major room #4…
This is an internal and external place for
mothers and their children to exchange
company. Here the methods of mothering
can be shared equally among Christians and
Muslims harmoniously as a gender
empowerment and recognition of faith.
Fathers are welcome as well to show respect
to the mothers and children by presenting
themselves equally for the child.

10. The Christian Muslim Multicultural Center
The final building design for Muslim and Christian collaboration
This building will render itself as
an educational center as well as a
religious affairs organization for
Christian and Muslim
communities. I designed this
building using the key elements I
used to discuss the similarities
between Christian and Muslim
faith. The goal of this will be to
initiate a more understanding
welfare for these two opposing
religious communities and
synchronize their ideals with each
other as individuals.
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