page_title: Sufi Center Rabbaniyya
section_title: Interfaith dialogue
hierarchical_section_title: Sufi Center Rabbaniyya / Organisation / Interfaith dialogue
caption_attribution_description: English: First Conferenz of the Dialog of the religions in Berlin on the 24th of may 2011 Deutsch: 1. Konferenz des Berliner Dialogs der Religionen am 24. Mai 2011 Treffen im Roten Rathaus Berlin
context_page_description: The Sufi Centre Rabbaniyya by the Sufi-Master Sheikh Eşref Efendi is a groupe of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order in Germany.
context_section_description: In 2009 Sheikh Eşref Efendi was given a new task by Grandsheikh Nazim and the Sufi Centre became the "Europäische Mitte fuer interspirituelle Begenungen“ (the European Center for Interspiritual Encounters). Since then the interspiritual and interfaith dialogue has been promoted even more.
  On many occasions representatives of other religions and traditions have been invited to facilitate talks about their own paths to God and their own methods. The various Sufi centers have hosted other spiritual/religious teachers and their students numerous times.
  Increasingly more and more institutions refer to the Sufi Centre Berlin as an authority regarding questions on Islam and Sufism. Radio stations and TV channels as well as various university students of subjects such as anthropology, communication studies, cultural science, theology, Islamic studies, etc. contact the centre for information or interviews. Even school pupils visit the centre or invite representatives of the centre to their school in order to teach pupils about Islam and Sufism.
  The Sufi Centre Berlin is registered with the district council as a religious association in Berlin Neukölln. Representatives of the centre are frequently invited to cross-cultural and interfaith events organised by the senate.
caption: Representatives of the Sufi Centre Berlin at the interfaith event of the senate of Berlin
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