The Ambassadorial Role of the Ismaili Centres
United Kingdom -- At the foundation ceremony of the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon in 1996, Mawlana Hazar Imam said that the Ismaili Centres were to be seen as "ambassadorial buildings, which today reflect and illustrate much of what the Shi'a Ismaili community represents". But what does it mean for a building to play an ambassadorial role? We often think about buildings ...