Hands of diverse skin tones breaking bread together at a long wooden table, late-afternoon light catching steam rising from shared dishes, blurred prayer beads and a kippah visible in the bokeh
Next Gathering — March 15, 2026
An Interfaith Community Center

Every tradition
has a table.
This is the room
that holds them all.

Buddhist monks and Baptist deacons. Sikh langar spilling into a courtyard. Creation stories from every tongue. Come as you are — doubts welcome.

Explore Our Story

Langar & Learning · Grief Circles · Solstice Walks · Interfaith Seders

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The Call

What if your doubts
were welcome here?

Most spaces ask you to check your questions at the door. We set a chair for them. Whether you're a hospice chaplain seeking continuing education, a college student untangling your parents' faith from your own, or a family who wants your children to hear creation stories from every tongue — the threshold is wide.

The hum here isn't agreement. It's the sound of overlapping graces rising toward the same ceiling — and finding, in that rising, something none of us could have named alone.

Meet the founders
The Mentors

Three traditions.
One conviction.

"We didn't build Gather because we agreed on everything. We built it because we agreed that the table matters more than winning the argument about who should sit at it."

Imam Yusuf Saleh · Rabbi Devorah Kessler · Swami Ananda PuriCo-founders, Gather Interfaith Center · Est. 2018

Eight years later, 600 community members, 12 traditions represented, and a langar that feeds 200 neighbors every third Sunday. The table keeps getting longer.

600+Members
12Traditions
8 yrsTogether
Three pairs of clasped hands — representing the founding imam, rabbi, and swami — resting together on a warm wooden table surface
The Trials

What happens
when you show up.

Real people. Real evenings. One sentence from each — because sometimes that's all a moment needs.

A Passover Seder table set with traditional items alongside flowers and candles from multiple traditions, diverse hands passing the Haggadah
Spring 2025

"I had never held a Haggadah before. By the end of the night, I was weeping — and I still can't fully explain why."

— Priya M., hospice chaplain

Interfaith Seder

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Monthly

"No one asked me to believe anything. They just sat with me."

— Thomas R., neighbor

Grief Circle

A group of people walking at dawn through a wooded path, some carrying lanterns, prayer flags strung between trees in the background
June 2025

"My daughter asked me why we were walking with strangers. I said: they stopped being strangers after the first mile."

— Amara J., parent

Solstice Walk

Volunteers ladling food into bowls at a community langar, steam rising from large pots, people sitting together on mats eating
Every 3rd Sunday

"I came for a free meal when I was broke. I stayed for five years."

— Daniel K., community member

Sikh Langar

A participant named Sofia Reyes speaking warmly to camera, seated in the Gather hall, teal prayer flags visible softly blurred in the background

Watch Sofia's Story · 2 min

The Transformation

The moment a stranger's
prayer answered
your own.

"I walked in agnostic and walked out still agnostic — but for the first time, I didn't feel alone in that. A woman I'd never met was praying in Arabic, and somehow every word landed exactly where I needed it."

Sofia Reyes— Graduate student, first visit 2024

A seat is already waiting. The only friction left is saying yes.

Next gathering: March 15, 2026 · Langar & Learning