The International Interfaith Centre (IIC) was inaugurated in Oxford, UK on 6 December 1993, inspired by the 1993 Year of Interreligious Understanding and Cooperation. As a result of the increasing amount and variety of interfaith activity around the world, it was perceived that a need could be met by an international, interfaith centre which was informed about all these different efforts and able to encourage continuing interfaith understanding and cooperation.

A Trust was established by the two oldest international interfaith organizations, the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) and the World Congress of Faiths (WCF), together with Westminster College Oxford (now part of Oxford Brookes University), which had a highly regarded Department of Theology and the Study of Religions. The work receives continual support from the trustees, patrons, volunteers and consultants.

To find out more about the IIC's past and present activities, please visit our Project and Archive pages.