Honors Program

Honors Students Visit 9/11 Memorial Museum

The honors students in the metropolitan seminar “Space, Place and the City” received a learning experience of lifetime when they visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Thursday, September 3. The visit was centered on the question of the role of spaces and places in civil religion and its concern with national unity, integrity and stability.The students also toured related religious spaces around Ground Zero where they learned about the relationship between those religious places and the Ground Zero site.

In addition, they visited St. Peter’s Church, the oldest Catholic church in New York, and St. Paul’s Chapel, which was the haven for recovery workers after 9/11. They even had opportunity to see the site of the Park51 Islamic Center and meet one of its staffers on their quest to understand the relationships between all these important places in lower Manhattan.