The winner and finalists of the 2025 Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year competition have been announced!
The winning project of the 2025 edition is the MUDD – Museo Diocesano Diffuso Di Napoli by the Fondazione Napoli C’entro – Arcidiocesi di Napoli (Italy).
The four finalists are Remettre l’église au centre du village (Putting the Church Back at the Heart of the Village), by ESA Paris and led by Paul LEVRAT, architecture student; Saving Ukraine’s Religious Heritage: Digitization and Preservation of Endangered Minority Archives, by an international consortium led by the University College Cork (Ireland); Sacred Past Project: Promotion of the Religious Heritage in the Carpathian Basin, a crossborder initiative led by Symmetry Foundation (Hungary); and REBELAH (Religions, Beliefs, and Laicity in Cultural Heritage to Foster Social Inclusion in Adult Trainings), involving six organisations under the coordination of La Xixa Teatre (Spain).
The competition has been judged by Anne Grady (Head of Development with the National Museum of Ireland to the CULT Committee of theEuropean Parliament), Gilles Guey (President of the Association of Directors of Culture of French Large Cities and Urban Areas), Justin Kroesen (Professor of Cultural History at the University of Bergen) and Greg Pickup (Chief Executive of The Churches Conservation Trust). More information about Jury members here.
The Award ceremony will take place at the FRH Biennial Conference 2026, which will take place on 22-23 October 2026 in Leuven, Belgium.
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