{"id":276067,"date":"2025-11-11T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276067\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:46:11","slug":"the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276067\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ismaili Center Houston \/ Farshid Moussavi Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035839\/the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture\/690e0d3910727b608567cf2e-the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ismaili Center Houston \/ Farshid Moussavi Architecture - Exterior Photography\" data-nr-picture-id=\"690e0d3910727b608567cf2e\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"426\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035839\/the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture\/690e0d3910727b608567cf2e-the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture_11.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 426\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Iwan Baan<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"690e0d3ab04b1c3c08aea048\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035839\/the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture\/690e0d3ab04b1c3c08aea048-the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ismaili Center Houston \/ Farshid Moussavi Architecture - 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A Space for Reflection, Dialogue, and Discovery &#8211; Ismaili Centers around the world serve as ambassadorial buildings, welcoming people of all backgrounds to explore the intersections of faith, culture, and civic life. Each embodies the Ismaili community&#8217;s commitment to peaceful pluralism, \u200b\u200bintellectual engagement, and shared humanity, offering a place for spiritual reflection, cultural exchange, and public dialogue. The Ismaili Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> continues this tradition, envisioned as a living home for the mind and spirit \u2013 a place where programmes in education, art, music, performance, and conversation come together to foster understanding among people of all backgrounds. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761880330_718_loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Iwan Baan + 17 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035839\/the-ismaili-center-houston-farshid-moussavi-architecture \u00a9 Iwan Baan Text&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[357,76,354,355,49,48,4032,6067,356,75,1443,4935],"class_list":{"0":"post-276067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-cultural-architecture","15":"tag-cultural-center","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-houston","19":"tag-sustainability"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}