The new sanctuary, designed by the architectural firm of Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie, was formally inaugurated on February 26, 2017.[7] The sanctuary is located on three acres of land in the Saranap neighborhood of Walnut Creek, about twenty-five miles east of San Francisco.[8][9][10] Carol Weyland Conner, the current Murshida of Sufism Reoriented, has characterized the sanctuary as follows: