Afro-Asian Institute
The Afro-Asian Institute (AAI) was founded in 1959 by Cardinal Franz König in Vienna . Until it was closed in 2016, it was both a development education institution and a place for cultures and religions to meet. Most recently it had the organizational form of a church foundation with public rights.
The aim of the content work of the house was to give people from "countries of the south" the opportunity to present themselves, their culture, their country and their way of life and then to enter into a "dialogue at eye level".
The institute in Vienna- Alsergrund has a Hindu prayer room, the first of its kind in Austria in 1980, as well as a mosque and a Christian chapel. A student residence with a cafeteria , café, study hall and event rooms offers “temporary home” for young people from all over the world. The in-house publishing house aa-infohaus offers people with a migration background the opportunity to publish on their topics.
In addition to Vienna, there are now Afro-Asian institutes in Salzburg and Graz . The Graz Institute has been organizing the multicultural ball in the rooms of the Karl-Franzens University Graz since 1997 , which has become a highlight of the Graz ball season.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.aswatthaforum.net/ (link not available)
- ↑ aa-infohaus
- ↑ KulturServerGraz: 10th multicultural ball. ( Memento of September 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 36.5 ″ E