Chrześcijańska architektura sakralna – problem świątyń desakralizowanych oraz przestrzeni parasakralnych

Abstract

The notion sacrum summarizes the transcendent horizon of human’s consciousness {homo religiosuś). Hierophany acts are states in which a man experiences a participation in the reality of sacrum is witnessing its views, has an insight behind the “mystery of the curtain” the characters, places, buildings, in which the assimilation of sacral space’s values occur, are the anticipation forms of the same reality – initiated by a man. They are an essence of places of worship, sanctuaries and churches. Signs – appropriate to the sacral spaces, we find today in the architecture, which does not serve to functions of religious cult: in museums, concert halls and wellness centers. At the same time, it becomes more common to transform structures originally sacred into secular functions – from the widely understood culture, through the housing to the entertainment. These phenomena enhanced the state of “confusion” in a semantic dimension of the contemporary architecture – especially the sacral architecture. The crisis of the contemporary Christian church architecture is related to an increasing relativization of values identified with the concept of sacrum. A permanent source of references, from which the creators of modem churches bring inspirations, is a liturgy – act of believers’ community rooted in the tradition and conditions of the space and time.