The Interfaith Center at the Presidio is . . .

• A San Francisco Bay Area interfaith friendship-building nonprofit organization, welcoming people of all faiths
• An inter-religious advocate of peacemaking among religions, locally and globally
• A regional resource for developing relationships among the diverse religious communities of the Bay Area
• A resource for ministering to veterans and their families and honoring those who have sacrificed their lives for their country

Never has the need for healthy cross-culture relationships been greater. The Interfaith Center at the Presidio has an historic commitment to healing and peacemaking within, between, and among religious and spiritual traditions. The Center’s mission is to welcome, serve, and celebrate the diverse faith traditions and spiritual wisdom of the Bay Area.

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Developing Local & Global Relations

Since the turn of the century the Interfaith Center has collaborated programmatically with more than 50 sectarian, ecumenical, and interfaith groups on dozens of programs.

• The Center maintains an online calendar of San Francisco-Bay Area interfaith activities. Send your calendar information to mary.zamboukos@interfaithpresidio.org
• The Center is a founding Cooperation Circle of the United Religions Initiative (URI) and led in organizing URI’s first North America assembly and North American Interfaith Network’s 20th anniversary NAINConnect
• The Center is active in North American Interfaith Network, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, URI and other interfaith networks.

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​Creating Interfaith Learning Environments & Resources

Grants and generous donors have allowed the Center to shepherd numerous projects, workshops, and resources. The Center has published One World, Many Voices – An Interfaith Song Book(2002), Sacred Spaces – 2004 Interfaith Sacred Space Design Competition (2004), and Shared Wisdom – Developing Grassroots Interfaith Relationships (August 2004).

​Other Center projects have included: What Do You Believe? (a 50-minute film based on 300 interviews with teenagers); Lost and Endangered Religions (including an academic conference Harran: At the Crossroads); a project gathering supplies for Iraqi children; and a course about ‘interfaith literacy’ being presented in seminaries, congregations, and special gatherings.
Renovation plans for the Main Post Chapel building include the creation and installation of 25 new stained-glass windows built around shards of glass gathered by U.S. Army Chaplain Frederick McDonald in 1944-45 from European sanctuaries damaged and destroyed by war.