Churches

Date March 2024

Churches should be monumental buildings. Until around 1900 they were. In de 20th century modernist churches invited hardly at all to worship the Higher One. The religious experience in a modernist church is impoverished and for many people stripped from holiness. The sacred atmosphere as was present in traditional chuches, is almost completely gone in modern churches. Churches had also a monumental value in the cityscape. With modernism that completely vanished. It's about time churches are built according to traditional designs again, where people come in the mood to worship their God and their appearance have a monumental value again.

Shown here are some examples of traditional church designs.

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Italian design. Architect: unknown.

Realised design for the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris. Because of a bomb in WOI the statues on top are gone.

Not realised design (1744) for a church in Paris. Architect: unknown.

St.Catharina church in Amsterdam. Built in 1820. Demolished in 1939 and replaced by a modernist library. Architect: Giudici (an Italian working in the Netherlands).

Brompton Oratory, Londen. Built in 1884. Still present and in use. Architect: Herbert Gribble.

Design for a church in Paris. Never realised. Architect: unknown.

Design for a church probably in Paris. Architect: unknown.

Design for a church resembling very much the Mozes and Aaronkerk in Amsterdam. Architect: unknown.

Design for an Italian church. Architect: unknown.

Baroque church. Architect: unknown.

Baroque church. Architect: unknown.

Design for the Basilica San Gaudenzio in Novara. The classicistic front facade was changed to baroque style. Architects: Pellegrino Tibaldi and Alessandro Antonelli (cupola).

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