Zaytuna College, a small school in Berkeley that offers majors in Islamic Law and Theology and also Arabic, is moving across town to a spot on "Holy Hill" north of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
The college, now on Hillegass Avenue near People's Park on the south side of campus, raised $4.9 million through a "brick by brick campaign" to buy a 1939 church building in the angle where Le Conte and Scenic avenues meet. Walter Ratcliff Jr. designed the building for the University Christian Church. A two-story addition was added in 1956.
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