Accommodation for solidarity groups
Since its creation, the House of Abraham has welcomed groups wishing to find a place to settle down and spread out in and around Jerusalem. Its capacity to accommodate, its meeting spaces and its accessibility make it a preferred place for many structures and groups of all kinds today.
Our organization for the reception of groups:
With our 50 rooms, each with its own private bathroom, we can accommodate up to 100 guests.
Upon reservation and within the limits of availability, it is possible for your group to reserve for festive times, conferences, meetings, times of sharing, celebrations:
To receive you inside :
- A glassed-in reception room of 50 m2 in the garden with a view of the old town
- A reception room of 40 m2
- A meeting rom with projection and sound equipment of 50 m2 separable into 2 rooms of 30 and 15 m2 each.
- A dining room of 70m2
- A chapel for 50 people
- Outdoor spaces including several terraces and wooded areas, with views of Jerusalem or in the gardens :
- North terrace for 100 people
- East terrace for 100 people
- Gathering space for 300 people
- An outdoor amphitheater chapel for 120 people
- A panoramic rooftop terrace with 360° view of Jerusalem on the 3rd floor
- Possibility of tents in various places
- A meal solution on the spot or picnic can be envisaged for your group which wishes to leave in day excursions.
Special attention is given to groups that have a project with a social, solidarity, or intercultural dimension.
Know more about those who come regularly to Maison d’Abraham
The Saint Laurent Network
Sharing in the Church a journey of faith with and from the poorest : this is the shared goal of these associations or local communities spread throughout France and federated by the Saint Laurent Network.
Throughout the year, these groups live out fraternity with the poorest locally, share the Gospel, and create spaces where they can hear their words and testimony. All together, they meet regularly at large gatherings in a spirit of celebration, renewal, reflection and support, in particular at the Cité Saint Pierre in Lourdes.
Destination Holy Land!
It is in these small groups that such a project is born, in a long-term relationship of trust. A year of fraternal and spiritual preparation to read the Gospel, to act it out with gestures to better understand it, to meditate, to reflect on one’s life, to give meaning to this trip, to save, to collect funds, to be trained.
Brother Frédéric-Marie, spiritual guide, doctoral student:
“These people don’t just say, ‘This episode happened here,’ they feel in their hearts that the story we read here is a story that concerns them deeply. I don’t really know what they understand, I only know that they understand it differently from me.”
Listen to their story on youtube
On the program:
→ Walk along the dividing wall and ask ourselves how to break down our inner walls.
→ Sharing Jesus’ burden and the burden of others in Gethsemane.
→ To be welcomed as distinguished guests by the Melkite sisters of Bethlehem and to wash each other’s feet.
→ Meet Bedouins and hear their struggle to survive.
→ Hearing the call to pray on the Esplanade of the Mosques.
→ Laying down one’s prayer at the Western wall.
→ Replay the Gospel at the Pool of Bethesda, and stand again in the place where Jesus healed a paralytic.
→ Question our deepest desires for peace by hearing the testimony of nonviolent resistance from “Tent of Nations”.
Actions in the Mediterranean (AIM)
AIM started from the observation that many hate speeches and acts of violence among young and old in Brussels are based on Islamophobic and anti-Semitic stereotypes often linked to the importance of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In order to fight these stereotypes and to nuance the debates around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AIM addresses directly the young people and their teachers. The project consists in gathering about 30 students from 3 Brussels schools and coming from very different socio-cultural backgrounds. Without this project, they would probably never have met, yet together they will follow a series of history/geography classes, watch and debate films/documentaries related to the conflict, meet with Palestinian and Israeli civil society personalities, and participate in a training weekend on stereotypes and how to deal with the media, information and social networks.
After six months of preparation, the young people come to Israel and Palestine for a week to visit a series of cultural and historical sites, associations, but also to meet young people of their age, Israeli and Palestinian, in Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nazareth and many other places.
The following year, these young people became “Nuances Ambassadors” and travelled to schools and youth centers to share their experience with their peers.
Watch a video about their work
FRANCE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION
The association gathers people attached to the right of peoples to self-determination and to the defense of human rights. Its vocation is to support the Palestinian people, particularly in their struggle for the realization of their national rights. It has nearly 5,000 members, organized in a hundred local groups in France.
For visits to local associations supported by the AFPS or for missions in the field (testimonies and/or participation in actions that support the resistance), some local groups choose the House of Abraham for their visit to Jerusalem.
INTERFAITH TOUR
Interfaith Tour is a research project on peace initiatives using the lever of interfaith. Every two years, the program sends an interfaith team of young French people to meet peacemakers in their country. Israel-Palestine is a recurrent stage of the tour and the House of Abraham has already hosted several editions to enable them to reach out to the region.