This case study highlights the interplay between different levels of smaller and larger spatial scales in an interreligious neighbourhood project in Stockholm, Sweden. The interreligious project is aiming to integrate a mosque with the current church building, operating with different materials and media in its public representations. On a small micro level, artefacts enact the project as a means for its public realisation, using micro model representations in front of the visiting public the image of a house-in-the-making and as an example of peaceful living in Sweden. By hosting the building project, the urban district also becomes an ideal city model for integration in a multicultural (liberal) Sweden in public media. The church area as a place for peacebuilding is symbolically locating the church area on Swedish national territory as a promising example of peace and a model directed outside the neighbourhood. 

Keywords: neighbourhood; scales; urban district; church area; national territory; ideal city