Category: Diverse Doors

Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day 2025 🗓 🗺

Celebrating Faith, Culture and Harmony.

Date: Sunday, 16th November 2025
Time: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm
Location: Various places of worship across Bristol

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum (BMFF) is delighted to announce this year’s Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day, taking place on Sunday, 16th November 2025, as part of the UK Inter Faith Week.

This much-loved annual event celebrates the rich religious and cultural diversity of Bristol and the West of England region, giving people the opportunity to explore different places of worship, learn about one another’s traditions, and strengthen community understanding. Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day gives individuals and communities the chance to experience and learn about each other’s cultures and beliefs, and offers the opportunity to visit a range of places of worship and discover many faith communities.

Over the years, Bristol’s Diverse Doors Open Day has become a unique tradition in Bristol, with many faith communities welcoming visitors into their sacred spaces. Everyone is welcome to join the Multi-Faith Trail, a unique journey coordinated by the Bristol Multi-Faith Forum, led by Cllr Tom Aditya, in cooperation with local faith communities.

The 2025 Multi-Faith Trail will include visits to a Buddhist shrine, a Greek Orthodox Church, an Evangelical Christian Church, a Muslim Mosque, a Sikh Gurudwara, a Jewish Synagogue, a Hindu Temple, and a Baha’i Centre.

The trail will begin at 9.00 am from the BMFF office at Barton Hill Settlement, 43 Ducie Road, Bristol (BS5 0AX), and conclude at 5.30 pm. BMFF will provide a scheduled minibus tour (prior booking required via email).

Distinguished guests, including His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor, the Police Commissioner, councillors, civic dignitaries, community leaders, university students, and members of the public from all walks of life, are expected to join the day’s programmes. Bristol Multi-Faith Forum requests that various government agencies and businesses support the Diverse Doors Open Day programmes.

BMFF kindly asks all participants to respect the customs and practices of each place of worship during the visits.

How to Join

Seats for the guided minibus tour are limited. To reserve your place, please email: info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk

More details and updates will be available on the BMFF website: https://bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk/2025-bristol-diverse-doors-open-day/

We warmly invite you, your family, friends, and colleagues to take part in this year’s Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day. Come and experience the flavours of faith, culture, and community harmony that make Bristol so special. Let’s celebrate UK Inter Faith Week 2025 together, in a spirit of peace and friendship.

Contact:
Bristol Multi-Faith Forum
43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill, Bristol, BS5 0AX
📧 info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk
🌐 www.bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk

NB: There is a reference section on faiths available on the BMFF website portal. Please read, make your own analysis, and if possible, leave your thoughts under the comments section: https://bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk/faiths/

Faiths

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum is an organization established in 2004 by the Bristol City Council for inter-faith community cohesion and inter-cultural social harmony, and to promote community well-being. 

Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day 2024 🗓 🗺

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum (BMFF) is organising this year’s Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day on Sunday, the 17th of November 2024 from 9 am to 5.30 pm, as part of the UK Inter Faith Week. Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day celebrates the religious diversity of the City of Bristol and the West of England region, giving communities the chance to experience and learn each other’s cultures and beliefs; and offering the opportunity to visit a range of places of worship and discover many faith communities that exist in the West of England region.

Over the years, many places of worship have opened their doors to the general public and to members of other faith communities as part of this event, which is unique to Bristol. All places of worship in Bristol are invited to participate in the Diverse Doors Open Day. His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant, the High Sheriff, the Lord Mayor, the Police Commissioner, councillors, civic dignitaries, various community leaders, and people from different walks of life will be participating in the Diverse Doors Open Day programmes at different venues. BMFF always requests guests and community members to respect and follow the customs and practices of the visiting place of worship.

Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day Leaflet Page 1 and 4
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Bristol Multi-Faith Forum also focuses on peace and harmony amongst communities and efforts to support the distressed people affected by the war. Bristol Diverse Doors Open Day Multi-Faith trail is coordinated by Cllr Tom Aditya, Chairman of the Multi-Faith Forum, with the cooperation of Bristol’s faith communities and harmonised by BMFF Steering Group members. This year’s Diverse Doors Open Day will be supported by Bristol City Council’s Community Development Team under the leadership of Mr Mohammed El Sharif.

The Faith Trail led by Cllr Tom Aditya at the Sikh Gurudwara

BMFF will arrange a scheduled tour providing minibus transport for people who have signed up for the tour in advance, for a small donation. Diverse Doors Multi-Faith Trail will start at 9 a.m. on Sunday, the 17th of November 2024 from the BMFF office at the Barton Hill Settlement, 43 Ducie Road, Bristol (BS5 0AX), and will finish by 5.30 p.m. The Faith Trail will pass through a Buddhist shrine, a Greek Orthodox Christian Church, a Seventh Day Adventist Church, a Muslim Mosque, a Sikh Gurudwara, a Jewish Synagogue, a Hindu Temple, and a Bahai Centre.

More details of the Multi-Faith Trail and Diverse Doors Open Day will be updated shortly through the BMFF website. We request all those who are interested, to join this year’s Diverse Doors Multi-Faith Trail. Seats are limited on the tour. Please email info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk to book your seats in advance. Older persons, various community leaders, university students, and other youngsters who have shown interest in inter-faith and inter-cultural activities are welcome.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your friends, family members and colleagues to join us and taste the various flavours of the different faiths in Bristol on the 17th of November. Let’s celebrate the UK Inter-Faith Week in harmony.

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum, 43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill, Bristol, BS5 0AX 

Email: info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk

www.bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk 

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum is an equality organization established in 2004 by the Bristol City Council for inter-faith community cohesion and inter-cultural social harmony; and to promote the health and well-being of communities.