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How does a space actually become scared?

Spaces built on sites having scared


importance like someone being buried, someone initiating a religion or when
someone venerates the holy books and prayer actually occurs there. Thus scared
spaces is discerned when the threads of history, memory and tradition are
triggered.
At one time religious buildings towered all over the structures of the town, built on
high grounds (like the Acropolis), symbols of powerful places, the dwellings of lords
and the ways of announcing their arrival in the city.
The purpose of this study is to identify and relate the symbolic essence of a sacred
spaces related to different religions and how the same is portrayed through
architectural features and also how architecture is molded as per the religious
practices, beliefs and needs.
The ability and potential of architecture to create a sense of awe, and the aura of the sacred
whether architecture can in itself actually create the sacred in the first place. Taking the examples of
the gothic churches and other great ecclesiastical architecture.
Religion has been a major source and style for any art or architecture itself. Religion and architecture
have always been inseparable and now the advent of modernity can also be brought through the
reorientation of architecture itself.

Rethinking scared spaces is importance and yet challenging, because the human
nature derives comfort in sticking to the traditional. Exceptional places of worship like
Ronchamp, Chatunga

Maybe we should ask whether the users of a building and their activities doin other words, do we
confer the quality of sanctity upon spaces, or do certain spaces confer sanctity upon us? Perhaps
what is sacred is simply what we choose to sanctify.

Symbolic value of places of worships of Hindus and Muslims, how their structures
convey similar kind of awe and meanings, but

Key similar elements like water bath, pathways, courtyards or plazas


Do we need to feel instantly that architecture is establishing a connection between the everyday and
the sacred?

Physical structures of scared spaces from Muslims and Hindus.


Ultimately the sacred space is not the one created by what architects have done to shape it, but by
what people have done with it, or by what has happened in itthe category that I think we would
agree Chautauqua belongs in.
Architecture of sacred spaces is not just related to forms, shapes, spires or materials. The times when
it is given the absolute blend of nature, the structure generates magical and heavenly aura of itself.

For example churches designed by Tadao Ando, Church at Firminy by Le Corbusier. Louis
Kahns Unitarian Church is a modern example.

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