Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses

BaFID is delighted to be able to support the newly launched festival ‘Fürth celebrates diversity!’ with lectures in order to make a contribution to strengthening social cohesion in the Nuremberg metropolitan region.

Our interfaith calendar shows the mosque of the Islamic Community Erlangen e.V. in March. The community is dedicated to social, educational, cultural, and spiritual support in Erlangen and the surrounding area. It aims to offer Muslims a platform on which they can integrate into society and actively...

Our interfaith calendar shows the synagogue in the city of Fürth in January. The local Jewish community has an eventful history that is deeply rooted in the town's history. The first Jewish inhabitants in Fürth were mentioned as early as 1440, and from 1528 the community played an important role in ...

At the end of 2024, the BaFID Interfaith Calendar was presented to representatives of the participating religious communities, members of the Board of Trustees, and numerous other personalities. The calendar, which combines the most important festivals and holidays of Christianity, Judaism, and I...

At the invitation of the University of Nizwa Prof. Georges Tamer, the founding director of BaFID, visited Oman from 13 to 20 December 2024. During his stay, he met Mr Muḥammad al-Mālkī, the director of the Department of Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Tolerance at the Ministry of Endowments and Re...

On 13 December 2024, the granddaughter of Fürth doctor and educator Dr Isaak Hallemann, Mrs Gal Batia Gabriel, visited the synagogue in Fürth. Accompanied by her husband and other acquaintances, she traveled to Fürth as part of a trip to Europe and talked about her father's memories of the Hallemann...

How religions encounter each other characterizes not only interreligious coexistence but also the self-image of the community. Religions may perceive the "religious other" as foreign or familiar. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related to each other, so individual ideas of the "other religion" ...