These events typically take place once per month. Please contact Rani for time and place.

Universal Worship

The Universal Worship is a service that was initiated by Hazrat Inayat Khan, an actualization of the importance he gave to his teaching of the Unity of Religious Ideals. In the Sufi Movement we offer this service by lighting candles and reading from the scriptures of the world’s religions. We are not interested in creating a new religion, but in kindling the light which, as Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan says, “ is the religion of all those teachers who have come and gone….Therefore this universal worship, the Church of All, is … a service, it is a worship and at the same time it is a training to our mind to tolerate the religion of different people.” This importance of this teaching of tolerance, understanding, and respect of other people and the diversity of religions is, perhaps, even clearer now than a century ago when Hazrat Inayat Khan came from India to the West.

“It is this which was the Message of Jesus Christ and all other great teachers of humanity Therefore it is not a separate line, it is the same line, it is the same Message which is being given to the world. It is the continuation of all the great religions which have come from time to time and a unification of all which was the desire of all prophets. And in reality the wish of the great teachers of humanity is fully gratified in this worship, because it was this that was their idea.”