The Temple Institute is building a new home. After two decades of serving the public, we find that we have to expand our walls. Our present facility is too small to house our entire collection of over sixty Temple vessels and hundreds of paintings. We are no longer able to comfortably accomodate the thousands of visitors who come each week to view and study the progress being made in preparing for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the renewal of the Divine service.

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lies waste?" Indeed, how is it that we propose a new building for The Temple Institute, while this house - the Holy Temple - lies in ruins? The entire purpose of The Temple Institute has been the raising of awareness and Holy Temple consciousness through education and outreach. It is due to the ever increasing interest in the Holy Temple, and the role that it is destined to play for all humanity, that we find it necessary to expand and improve our facility, even before the Holy Temple is built, for the sole purpose of continuing our historic mission.

The new Temple Institute Study Center will include a 150 square meter research library, 300 square meters of workshops, and a 700 square meter hall for gatherings and occasions.

However, the central focus of the new center will be an experiential presentation of the Holy Temple, designed to impart to the visitor an understanding of how the Holy Temple was, and a sense of how it will be. The will be built around the over sixty Temple vessels and priestly garments that The Institute has already created. This multimedia presentation which will take place in a 1600 square meter pavillion, will be augmented by a 200 square meter gallery to accomodate over 200 original oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings. An additional 300 meters of exhibition space will accomodate the curious visitor.

In addition to the aforementioned exhibition and study halls, The Temple Institute Worldwide Study Center will house 200 square meters of reserach labs for the Institute's own research staff, 250 square meters of office space, a 500 meter state of the art storeroom for paintings and veseels not currently on exhibit, and a 100 square meter gift shop. In all, the Center will encompass 4300 square meters.

Prime real estate in Jerusalem is greatly sought after. For this and other reasons we must necessarily be cautious about disclosing specific information concerning the different building sites we have been considering. Geulat karkah - the redeeming and reclamation of land in Jerusalem is itself a mitzvah of the highest order. Needless to say, the final location will be chosen in light of the historical focus of our work.

Building a modern facility of the size and scope that we have sketched before you, of course, requires great sums of money. The Temple Institute has presently alloted the funding necessary to begin the process. We will need the help of our dedicated supporters to see the entire process through to fruition. Every friend of The Temple Institute who makes a donation designated to enable the building of the New Study Center will in effect have acquired a portion in the historical process that we hope to acheive, a share in the spiritual future of all mankind. If you have further questions, please click here to contact us.