The center provides important services to the community - concerts, lectures, humanitarian projects and is open free of charge for workshops and conferences.
Jimmy Abu Sbeih holds a rendition of Joseph Smith’s "First Vision" carved in olive wood in Jerusalem, April 10, 2022.BYU professor James R. Kearl, who has been assistant to the university president for the center since 1989, says the eight-tiered, 125,000-square-foot building — across from the Old City and overlooking the Mount of Olives and Kidron Valley — is more than that.
After a long discussion, that body was persuaded to lease the land to the church, so, in 1984, both parties agreed to begin construction, Kearl says, without a long-term lease. Israeli officials eventually offered the church a long-term lease — if its leaders would agree not to permit proselytizing.A long and lively meeting of Latter-day Saint general authorities took place July 31, 1985, to discuss the matter, Holland, now an apostle, writes in a
It also provides important services to the community — concerts, lectures, humanitarian projects and is open free of charge for workshops and conferences. And the students and faculty eat up all the historic and biblical sites, while learning about Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Apostle Quentin L. Cook speaks to Latter-day Saint and Jewish scholars at BYU's Jerusalem Center on June 5, 2019.
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