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Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress
While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.
Prayers rising past the immanent frame
Charles Taylor helps me understand my church’s architecture—and my own struggles with faith.
Hostile architecture
In metro areas today, park benches are becoming an endangered species.
What is a beautiful church building for?
What my bad sermons made bland, our sanctuary made sweet.
by Zen Hess
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
by Philip Jenkins
The way we build our cities is racist
American buildings, streets, and neighborhoods don’t just host oppression—they embody it.
by Gabe M. Colombo
European churches are currently engaged in an architectural culture war. This is startling given how weak the churches themselves have become.
When you pray at LA's cathedral, you are part of humanity past, future and in the inglorious, unromanticized present.
by Suzanne Guthrie
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the persecuted Orthodox Church began its resurrection. Nothing better illustrates this revival than the restoration of the cathedrals and churches.