Type: Public – Culture – Religious
Location: Nicosia – Cyprus
Leader architect: Marinos Panagi
Research members: Marinos Panagi, Nicos Mesaritis
Area: 8,560 m²
Site Area: 14,700 sqm
Budget: euro 17,000,000
Year: 2012
Religion for each people individually is usually developed by some believers who over the years have shaped each religion and how its followers perceive it. Since ancient times, the Orthodox Christian Church has developed an essentially peculiar relationship between the perception of the faithful and the architectural form of its temples.
Through the Project study, is made an attempt to rearrange the forms of the Orthodox holy temples so far, an effort that is inspired by the mystery, the relationship between divinity and mortality and the peculiarity of a sacred temple that comes to earth to be able to every believer to perform his rites and prayers in it. The specific idea aims to give the attendee in addition to a sense of mystery as it remains in religion, but also to highlight a majestic form that emerges from the earth, a pretty good analogy in how this particular religion perceives the relationship. god, man and earth.
A mysterious illumination from a slit in the upper part of the sanctuary, which symbolizes the descent of the divine spirit to earth, comes in the face of ceremonies and those who attend them, and also at the majestic entrance of the temple.
THE TEMPLE June 1st, 2020Admin
