<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary Orthodox, Greek- and Roman-Catholic religious architecture built after the World War II period in Poland. It also shows the process of the evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and applications of new iconography conventions in Christian temples. It covers problems in art as well as new essential ideological aspects of a symbological and liturgical nature. Examples of modern churches seem to prove that the separatist tendencies of Christian Churches and cultures are now being reversed; this is not only an outcome of mutual dialogue, exchange of ideas, values and different forms of worship, but it also confirms the authentic will of ecumenical unity in art. These examples are representative of the architecture of the cultural borderland, which attempts to synthesise both Western and Eastern Christian art.</p></abstract>

This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary Orthodox, Greek- and Roman-Catholic religious architecture built after the World War II period in Poland. It also shows the process of the evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and applications of new iconography conventions in Christian temples. It covers problems in art as well as new essential ideological aspects of a symbological and liturgical nature. Examples of modern churches seem to prove that the separatist tendencies of Christian Churches and cultures are now being reversed; this is not only an outcome of mutual dialogue, exchange of ideas, values and different forms of worship, but it also confirms the authentic will of ecumenical unity in art. These examples are representative of the architecture of the cultural borderland, which attempts to synthesise both Western and Eastern Christian art.

On the spirit of places of worship – practical ecumenism of the polish cultural borderland

Department for Architecture of Local Cultures, Faculty of Architecture

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This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary Orthodox, Greek- and Roman-Catholic...

On the spirit of places of worship – practical ecumenism of the polish cultural borderland

Published Online: May 16, 2020

Page range: 95 - 114

Received: Jul 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.082.10861

Keywords
architecture, art, icon, theology, dialogue

© 2019 Jerzy Uścinowicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

On the spirit of places of worship – practical ecumenism of the polish cultural borderland

Published Online: May 16, 2020

Page range: 95 - 114

Received: Jul 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.082.10861

Keywordsarchitecture, art, icon, theology, dialogue

© 2019 Jerzy Uścinowicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
architecture, art, icon, theology, dialogue