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Sacral Architecture of Czestochowa—The “Spiritual Capital of Poland” over the Centuries and Nowadays

open access: yesReligions
Częstochowa is a city known as the “spiritual capital of Poland”. The reason behind this name is the sanctuary of Our Lady—”Jasna Góra” monastery—around which a settlement was established, giving rise to the city today.
Aleksandra Repelewicz, Zaruhi Mamyan
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Small Sacral Christian Architecture in the Cultural Landscapes of Europe [PDF]

open access: yesActa Horticulturae Et Regiotecturae, 2019
Abstract Though often overlooked due to its scale, small sacral Christian architecture has a significant importance in cultural landscapes in Europe and beyond. It represents a shared international cultural heritage and is significant in its diversity, distribution and abundance across cultural landscapes.
Attila Tóth   +2 more
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Genius loci in contemporary sacral architecture

open access: yesEpites-Epiteszettudomany, 2010
Bár kortárs egyházi építészetről lehetséges a XX. századi liturgikus változások fényében is beszélni, e változások okát közvetlenül a modern ember szent-élményének átalakulásában találjuk. A szent-élmény részben a hely szellemének felfogása, értelmezése és szimbolikus megjelenítése által kapcsolódik az ember földi életéhez, így a szakralitás ...
Vilmos Katona
exaly   +2 more sources

The signs and symbolic markers of sacral orientation in Mosque architecture

open access: yesARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2021
Mosques as a religious building for the Moslem Community have two orientations and they include the Qibla as the main and direction of the sky as the secondary.
Muhammad Rusdi Adiputra, Purnama Salura
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Ritual void in the sacred architecture of Montenegro

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2023
Sacral architecture has always aimed at the ritualization of space, which gained its spatial form by making the void. Common to all religions is the need to create a grandiose space with a "sacred void", which achieves mystification, sublimity, as a ...
Nemanja Milićević   +1 more
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The Colors of the Ineffable—Jerzy Nowosielski’s Monumental Works as a Contemporary Search for Sacred Space

open access: yesArts, 2021
The subject of this work is the monumental art of Jerzy Nowosielski (1923–2011), one of the most outstanding contemporary Polish painters, who combined modernity with the orthodox icon aesthetics.
Wojciech Stanisław Januszewski
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Cirkevná topografia mesta Nitry – vyriešená neznáma

open access: yesStudia Historica Brunensia, 2021
The author of this study focuses on the issue of the church topography of the city of Nitra, which has not been adequately addressed until now, as the research of the earlier history of this important Slovak city was hindered by an absence of relevant ...
Peter Keresteš
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE SACRAL ARCHITECTURE OF UKRAINE [PDF]

open access: yesVìsnik Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu Lʹvìvsʹka Polìtehnìka Serìâ Arhìtektura, 2019
exaly   +2 more sources

Adaptation of places of worship to secular functions with the use of narrative method as a tool to preserve religious heritage [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2022
Sacral objects are an important part of Europe’s religious heritage. For centuries, temples have constituted a key element in the urban morphology; they fit into the urban fabric of European cities and are permanently embedded there.
Wierzbicka, Anna Maria, Arno, Maria
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Fragments of sacral architecture in the ramparts of medieval Novo Brdo [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2022
This paper offers the first overview of the appearance and origin of architectural decorations built into the ramparts of the fort at Novo Brdo. It considers parts of decorations that have a wide repertoire of tracery motifs in shallow relief ...
Bjelić Igor
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