Mission
Abrahamic House cultivates vibrant interfaith communities where people of diverse faiths, cultures, and backgrounds build meaningful relationships, deepen understanding, and work together toward the common good.
Through our residential fellowship and broader community programming, Abrahamic House creates welcoming spaces for authentic encounters across lines of faith, culture, and identity. Through shared meals, meaningful dialogue, and educational experiences, we inspire individuals to build friendships across faith traditions, deepen their understanding of their own and others’ beliefs and practices, challenge stereotypes, move beyond assumptions, and strengthen communities rooted in empathy, trust, and cooperation.
Vision
We envision a world in which different religious and cultural traditions inspire
individuals and communities to enrich one another, fostering a society rooted in
mutual respect, ethical responsibility and a shared commitment to human
flourishing. Nothing can replace a human-to-human connection.
What is Abrahamic House?
Abrahamic House is a multi-faith co-living and co-creating space to learn, share, pray, celebrate, connect, and serve. We host up to four emerging leaders from different faith backgrounds for a 1–2 year residential fellowship experience in Washington, DC. Through shared living and community programming, fellows build meaningful relationships across faith traditions while creating opportunities for others to do the same.
During their fellowship, fellows live and work together to develop and lead community engagement programs, including group learning, faith-based and social gatherings, and public service initiatives. These experiences allow fellows and participants to deepen their understanding of one another’s faith, culture, and values; challenge assumptions and stereotypes; and build communities rooted in empathy, trust, and cooperation.
Our goal is to transform both individuals and communities by creating a pluralistic present built on shared experiences. Abrahamic House recognizes the enduring value of religious traditions while creating space for people across faiths, backgrounds, and beliefs to learn from one another, build relationships, and work together toward a more connected world.
As we grow, we aim to bring this model of interfaith community-building to additional communities across the United States.
Our Story
Abrahamic House A 501(c)(3) organization is the brainchild of Mohammed Al Samawi, author of The Fox Hunt, his autobiography. Mohammed’s personal journey, from war-torn Yemen to the United States, led him from harboring a deep suspicion of other faiths to becoming a world-renowned peace advocate.
A powerful encounter with a teacher challenged him to learn about the Bible and Judaism, rerouting him from a path of likely violence toward global interfaith activism. Mohammed’s journey ultimately saved his life, when, in 2015, four American strangers–Jewish, Christian, and Muslim–helped rescue him from militant groups in Yemen.
The work that Mohammed began in Yemen is far from finished. Mohammed remains committed to the exchange and education of core values that define our religious traditions and hopes to advance this work through Abrahamic House. The board of Abrahamic House is comprised of diverse leaders in the faith, peace, justice, and entrepreneurship fields. Abrahamic House fellows hail from Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Baha’i faiths, with a diversity of cultural and religious practices.