BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
Monday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM

The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is the largest Hindu temple of its kind outside of India. The temple boasts hand-carved stone spires that tower 75 feet. More than 12,300 tons of stone was quarried and shipped to the craftsmen in India. Then, the nearly 35,000 pieces were shipped to Atlanta, where more than 900 volunteers dedicated their time in putting this marvel together.

Tour fee: $20

Drepung Loseling Monastery
Monday, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM

Drepung Loseling provides theoretical knowledge and practical training in Tibetan Buddhist scholarly traditions for Western students, scholars, and the general public and helps preserve the endangered Tibetan culture. The tour will be led by the abbot, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi.

Tour fee: $30

Food, Justice, and Sustainability: Atlanta’s Urban Agriculture
Monday, 9:00 AM– 12:00 PM

This bus tour will take us to places in urban Atlanta where residents are working to address food, justice, and sustainability concerns in their communities. Tour guide Erin Croom of Georgia Organics will lead us through several sites to show how local organizations have been addressing hunger and nutrition by developing new forms of urban agriculture and garden-based education.

The tour will include sites such as the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, Oakleaf Mennonite Farm, and Truly Living Well Natural Urban Farms. The Oakhurst Community Garden Project works with youth and families to develop creative skills in sustainable urban living, organic gardening, health, and nutrition. The Oakleaf Mennonite Farm is a diverse vegetable and small animal farm founded by the Berea Mennonite Church in East Atlanta with the belief that local, fresh, responsible eating is part of the Christian call to stewardship and creation care. Truly Living Well is an African-American-owned and -operated urban farm that provides food and educational services for local communities.

Tour fee: $30

High Museum of Art
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM

The High Museum of Art’s collections consist of more than 11,000 pieces and include nineteenth and twentieth century American and decorative art, significant European pieces, modern and contemporary art, photography, African art, and folk art.

Tour fee: $15

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is home to the presidential papers of the Carter Administration. An exhibit of significant events occurring during Carter’s life and political career includes photographs with interpretative text. Several exhibits focus on important twentieth century issues such as war and peace, disarmament, and the economy.

Tour fee: $20

Oakland Cemetery
Monday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM

Oakland, founded in 1850, exemplifies the nineteenth century “rural garden” cemetery movement. It is the final resting place of many of Atlanta’s most noted citizens. It is also a showplace of sculpture and architecture, and a botanical preserve with ancient oaks and magnolias. Here in this peaceful place the full scope of the city’s rich and fascinating history unfolds before you.

Tour fee: $15

Sacred and Religious Sites of Atlanta Tour
Monday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM

This religious sites tour explores four sites exemplifying the rich diversity of Atlanta’s religious communities.

The Catholic Shrine of Immaculate Conception is the second oldest structure in downtown. It was completed and dedicated in 1873 and is still in use. It replaced a frame structure on the same site that was famously saved from the burning of the city in 1864.

Buckhead Church is an in-town campus of North Point Ministries located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. Approximately 5,000 people are in attendance every Sunday. The church is an innovator in the use of technology among multi-site churches. The sermon each week is delivered virtually from North Point’s home campus in Alpharetta, GA, and the senior minister, Andy Stanley, appears via hologram in the Buckhead Church.

The Temple is the oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, established in 1860. During the 1950s and 1960s it became a center for civil rights advocacy. In response, white supremacists bombed The Temple in 1958. Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Ralph McGill’s outraged front-page column on The Temple bombing won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Al-Farooq Masjid was established in 1980, and at the time it was one of only a few mosques in the Southeast. Today, the mosque is one of nearly thirty-five in Metro Atlanta, and it attracts Muslims from over fifty countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and from all across the United States.

Tour fee: $25

William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Monday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM

The Museum’s extraordinarily vivid exhibitions use the personal remembrances of Atlantans to explain seminal moments in the Jewish experience. Creating Community tells the story of Atlanta Jews creating and experiencing community. Absence of Humanity tells the story of the Holocaust through historical photographs and documents, personal memorabilia and family pictures, and in the voices of those who survived and made new lives in Atlanta.

Tour fee: $10