INTERFAITH PROJECT PRESENTATION

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INTERFAITH PROJECT PRESENTATION

• Title
• Multifaith Centre Building and Design -
  Introduction to Asian Culture and Religion
• (Bahai)
• Presented by Chuen-Tat Kang (???)
• July 2011

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Purpose of the Project

• Propose the typical design for multifaith centre
  development in Australia
• Assist the understanding of the culture and
  religion of Asian countries in the aspects of
  religious centre development
• Design interfaith activity education program in
  the state of Victoria in Australia

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BAHAI TEMPLE ESTABLISHMENT

• The temple or houses of worship of the Bahai
  Faith or religion are open structure, being
• designed to demonstrate the principle
  practicality about Bahais commitment to unity in
  
• diversity. The temple is also filled with light,
  as a part of expressive of the attitude the Bahai
  
• religion takes towards its relationships with all
  parts of the human based civilized society.
• 2. The houses of worship are not only serve for
  Bahai community services but also opened as
• places where anybody with any faiths or no faith
  meet to worship in a building with a side and
• a dome, symbols of the acceptance of all
  religious traditions. The services inside Bahai
  sacred
• spaces are non-denominational without any sermon
  or other attempts to cast these teachings in
• a mould of Bahai interpretation specifically.
• 3. The service participants may enter the temple
  by any door to experience the readings and
• prays from worlds faith scripture in assemblies
  to recognize one Creator. The spirit of
• optimism of Bahai temple could be proven in the
  integration of diversified architectural
• traditions, design openness with Bahai services
  free from sermons and ritual.
• 4. Temple has played a central role in Bahai
  community life, where other agencies, such as
• colleges or schools, hostels, home for the aged
  and administrative centers will be constructed
• in time around the Bahai temple.

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BAHAI TEMPLE ESTABLISHMENT

• 5. The music inside Bahai temple are selected
  with set of music sung by a trained Capella
• choir.
• 6. An example of typical Bahai temple, located in
  Wilmette, Illinois in United States of
• America (USA), named Mother Temple of the West,
  is able to integrate several major
• architectural traditions and wove together
  various religious symbols in a single building.
• 7. According to Louis Bourgeois in un Homme et
  son oeuvre When man-made beliefs are
• rooted out of all religions, we find only
  harmony. Today, however, religion is foundering
  so
• such in superstitions and human theories that it
  has to be defined in a new form in order to
• become pure and spotless once more. It is the
  same in architecture Now, in this new
• concept of the Temple is woven, in a symbolical
  form, the great Bahai teaching of unity, unity
• of all religions and all mankind. We find these
  combinations of mathematical lines
• symbolizing those of the universe and in their
  complex merging of all religions into one.
• Reference
• Hatcher WS, Martin JD The Bahai Faith The
  Emerging Global Religion. Harper and Row
• Publisher, 1984, San Francisco in United States
  of America (USA), page 169-171.