The Sacred City Project
The Sacred City Project is a non-profit organization formed to reconnect the faith communities around the country that were so active in 9/11 relief ministries. The Project's goals are to create an interfaith chapel on the World Trade Center site, to develop creative programming that will invite the city to re-imagine its future, and to assure a place for the emerging interfaith community in the ongoing civic dialogues of New York as the city rebuilds.
About Lyndon Harris
The Reverend Lyndon F. Harris was the priest in charge of the relief ministries at Ground Zero offered through Saint Paul's Chapel after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 
Father Harris joined the staff of Trinity Church-Saint Paul's Chapel in April 2001 in order to develop an alternative urban worship program at Saint Paul's. However, from September 15, 2001 to June 2, 2002, Saint Paul's Chapel was converted into a multi-faith relief center for the rescue and relief workers at the World Trade Center site and for the victims' family members. Saint Paul's offered food, massage therapy, grief counseling, and chiropractic and podiatric care around the clock. By the end of the operation, over one half million meals were served.
Harris has traveled the country speaking to churches, civic groups and academic institutions about the transformative experiences of Saint Paul's Chapel. His presentation at the Parliament for the World's Religions in Barcelona during the summer of 2004, entitled The Future of Our Past: Some Thoughts on 9/11 Moving Forward led to a working relationship with the United Religions Initiative at the United Nations for the Sacred City Project.
Father Harris has appeared on many news programs including CBS News, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, NPR, The History Channel, NY1 (where Harris and the volunteers were selected twice as "New Yorkers of the Week"). Many international news outlets also featured his work at Saint Paul's, including the BBC and German TV (ARD). Harris has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Washington Post, The Boston Herald, The Christian Science Sentinel, and others, including mention on A Prairie Home Companion. Harris is the author of the forthcoming book entitled The Little Chapel That Stood: A Story of Healing and Hope to be published by Jossey-Bass Publishing.
Harris is a graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC (BA 1983), and The School of Theology at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (M. Div. 1990). He is currently a Th. D. candidate (ABD) in systematic theology at The General Theological Seminary. Harris is a fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation, and has been honored to receive several awards including the Dean's Medal for Exemplary Service from General Seminary, and Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both Wofford College and the School of Theology at the University of the South. Harris has just completed a tenure as a consultant in Urban Ministries at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and is currently developing The Sacred City Project.
