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Architecture works with signs and symbols, the key to reading it always depending on the cultural environment and historical time. Today, as in the past, the architectural forms of Orthodox churches are governed by tradition. In the construction of a church, the expressive variations of contemporary constructive systems are often ignored, being considered as not conforming to tradition. What is tradition? Where does tradition begin and where does it end? What is and what is not traditional? These are just a few of...

Towards the end of the 19th century, the international affirmation of Romania as a unitary state by acquiring its independence from the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the constitutional monarchy, coincided with the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Within all Romanian countries, each of them with different architectural expressions and traditions, a "central" manifest, a spiritual connection between all Romanians, a unitary architectural style was required. Contrary to the E...