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Contemporary Christian architecture (for people who go to church)?
I'm doing a project about contemporary Christian architecture and I'd like to hear what the believers think about it: - Do you prefer the central disposition of the sacral space or the longitudinal? - Do you think the church is primarily a place to meet God or a place for the community to meet? - How do you view the changes the Second Vatican Council has made to the liturgy and liturgical space? - If you go to a church that has been built within the last ten years or so, do you like it? Do you think it fulfills the needs of the believers as well as the older churches did? Or even better? - Do you prefer churches with simple, bare interior (e.g. no Stations of the Cross on the wall, no symbols...) or a church where the whole building tells the world the message of Christianity (by statues, paintings, symbols etc.)? Any thoughts and ideas will be appreciated. Thank you all in advance.
Public Comments
- I believe the Church is the body of people who follow Christ, and they can assemble together anywhere- in a building, on the side of a mountain, in homes, etc. I prefer a building verses a mountian side if it rains or snows. The Church is a spiritual structure- not a physical one.
- I find most modern churches, post WW2, ugly. They seem to come from a production line and not an imagination. There are exceptions, however they are very few. I have not seen a contemporary church designed since 1987 that I personally liked.
