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The article presents characteristic features of this type of buildings on the example of old and modern Orthodox churches of the borderland area. Their ideological message and spatial and functional shape are revealed in comparison with the traditional archaeological and symbolic structures of Orthodox churches that are considered canonical. They are also evaluated in terms of their liturgical servitude. The newly created temples, using traditional spatial and liturgical arrangements and at the same time the conve...

This paper presents selected examples of interaction between East orthodox icon and West gothic architecture built after World War II period in Poland. It shows the process of evolution of traditional iconography conventions. It covers problems in art as well as new essential ideological aspects of symbolical and liturgical nature.

This paper presents selected examples of interconfessional conversions of Christian temples in last fifty years in Poland. It also shows the process of transformation of spatial and functional structures as well as iconography of the temples, implemented throughout adaptation. It covers problems in architectural conservation as well as essential ideological aspects of symbolical and liturgical nature. Those examples are representative for the architecture of cultural borderland, which attempts to synthesize both W...

Poland, as cultural and religious borderlands which are now, as in the past, a part of Latin, West Roman-Catholic, Greek-Slavic and East Orthodox culture, is a good place to apply comparative analyses of art of both Christian Churches: the Eastern and Western one. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and appli...

Today's world of architecture and art is more frequently separated from transcendence. The pressure of the pragmatism of a sign brutally annuls imagination. The language of symbols seems to be dying out. The victory of semiology, analytical rationalism and the reign of information communication are all the effects of the triumph of a sign over a symbol. The art of architecture, especially its sacral variety, ought to remain symbolic if it wants to be permanent and eternal. So, if it is expected to be the authentic...

Two – thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a „truth of God” and – like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art – it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. ...