The seminar will be based on the forthcoming book, The Politics of Multifaith: The Limits of Legible in Europe (Brill), which discusses the reasons why multi-faith spaces were a source of intense disagreements by critically examining the visions of religion behind, in, and around them. The book introduces a novel notion of “legible religion,” the idea that in administrative proceedings phenomena labeled as religious are reduced only to the features deemed important by the state, as a conceptual tool for analyzing both the spaces themselves and the context around them. The discussed chapter focuses on the normative assumptions inherent in the design of multi-faith spaces. It looks at the history and early examples of multi-faith spaces that proved formative for future general trends. The chapter is supplemented with additional case studies that showcase the role of context in the broader understanding of the discourses that develop around multi-faith spaces.