New Jerusalem Community is perhaps the best known intentional community in Cincinnati, in at least in religious circles, located near Spring Grove Cemetery. It was founded by the well-known author, lecturer, and Franciscan priest Fr. Richard Rohr. He served as its leader from its beginning in 1971 until 1985. Richard Rohr went on to found the Center for Action and Contemplation and The Rohr Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The New Jerusalem Community continues to be a Catholic lay group of families seeking to live out the Christian gospel in community with each other, with the working class neighborhood in which they live and with the wider world though mission projects. Currently there are about 110 adult members of the community and 45 children. See details, go to http://www.ic.org/directory/new-jerusalem-community/
An Intentional Community and Co-Housing Highlighted by ECI
