The biblical commandment to love one's neighbor has recently been used in political campaigns and restricted to a certain group of persons. These campaings address the ambiguous relation between universality and particularity that is inherent in the concept of neighborhood. In this paper, the notion of an active neighbourhood formation is developed based on Alain Badiou's concept of neighbourhood, 1 Peter, and Qur'anic perspectives on neighbourhood. In contrast to the metaphor of building bridges, the concept of neighbourhood emphasizes the active work of building a new shared space together. In this shared space, the interacting parties are equally foreign and equally familiar to each other. It focuses not only on the exchange of ideas, but also on bodily and spatial conditions. The concept also emphasizes that neighbourliness is based on the choice to be a neighbor, not on coincidental coexistence.