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<p>Ukraine’s independence in 1991 changed the direction of society’s development, the most important of which was the revival of the spirituality of the Ukrainian nation, which is connected with thousands of years of religious traditions. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the development of sacred construction in the environment of modern Ukranian cities as an important factor of reviving the nation and building a new national identity. The article analyzes selected realized objects in the residential environment, systematizes architectural prototypes, which architects turn to nowadays in search of a modern image of a sacred building. Based on the methods of comparative, synchronic and semiotic analysis, the significance of new sacred objects for the formation of the image of the city was revealed, and their social and symbolic meanings was also clarified.</p>
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Ukraine’s independence in 1991 changed the direction of society’s development, the most important of which was the revival of the spirituality of the Ukrainian nation, which is connected with thousands of years of religious traditions. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the development of sacred construction in the environment of modern Ukranian cities as an important factor of reviving the nation and building a new national identity. The article analyzes selected realized objects in the residential environment, systematizes architectural prototypes, which architects turn to nowadays in search of a modern image of a sacred building. Based on the methods of comparative, synchronic and semiotic analysis, the significance of new sacred objects for the formation of the image of the city was revealed, and their social and symbolic meanings was also clarified.

Church Construction and the City in Ukraine After 1990: Social and Semantic Dimensions

Prof. D.Sc. Ph.D. Eng. Arch., University of Agriculture in Krakow

Prof. D.Sc. Ph.D. Eng. Arch., Opole University of Technology

Środowisko Mieszkaniowe/Housing Environment

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Ukraine’s independence in 1991 changed the direction of society’s development, the most important of which was the revival of the spirituality of the Ukrainian...

Church Construction and the City in Ukraine After 1990: Social and Semantic Dimensions

Published Online: Jan 15, 2023

Page range: 15 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700sm.22.027.17150

Keywords
modern sacred architecture, Ukraine, social and semantic meanings, residential environment

© 2022 Bohdan Cherkes et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Church Construction and the City in Ukraine After 1990: Social and Semantic Dimensions

Published Online: Jan 15, 2023

Page range: 15 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700sm.22.027.17150

Keywordsmodern sacred architecture, Ukraine, social and semantic meanings, residential environment

© 2022 Bohdan Cherkes et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
modern sacred architecture, Ukraine, social and semantic meanings, residential environment