Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Space ship? Site of Super Bowl LXXIV?
Posted on 11/17/2014 6:23:50 AM PST by marshmallow
Millennials gravitate toward classic, quiet church spaces that feel authentic and provide a break from the busyness of a fast-paced, technological world, revealed a study commissioned by church architectural firms.
Online surveys administered to 843 young adults ages 18 to 29 by Christian research firm Barna Group and Cornerstone Knowledge Network, the market research organization created by church design firms Aspen Group and Cogun, found 67 percent chose the word "classic" to describe their ideal church. By contrast, 33 percent prefer a trendy church as their ideal.
"They don't want something created artificially for them; they don't want a bait and switch. What they want is something deeper and more authentic," Aspen Group AIA Architect Derek Degroot said of the survey results.
That search for authenticity translates into the look and sound Millennials prefer for their ideal church.
When asked to choose their preference between a church sanctuary and a church auditorium, 77 percent chose sanctuary. When shown four different kinds of church windows ranging from modern and least "churchy" to traditionally ornate, over a third of all respondents chose the most ornate stain glass window common to chapels. When shown four styles of church altars, the study showed that a majority of respondents chose altars that "are unambiguously Christian and are more traditional."
"Millennials are a very visual group," explained Barna Vice President of Publishing Roxanne Stone. "If they go into your church and they don't know where to go or it's ambiguous or they don't understand what something is for, they will move on."
Additionally, 78 percent of millennial respondents selected a quiet church as the ideal over a loud church.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Space ship? Site of Super Bowl LXXIV?
Catholic church in Muskegon Michigan.
Inside view:
"Faceless Mary with an empty womb"...gimme the shivers.
Sci-fi influenced?
Borg cube?
Some Christian Science church in Washington D.C....no thanks.
Russian Orthodox church in Paris, France....I think this is kind of cool looking...RCR says it is ugly.
Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Vienna, Austria.
My reaction:
Presbyterian Church (USA)
A giant spider is eating St. Petersburg.
St. Anne's Catholic church in London. Just looks like a coffee house to me...not necessarily ugly.
Roman Catholic
RCR calls it a giant dunce cap.
Roman Catholic
Looks like a columbarium to me...
Inside:
Islam
Looks like typical eastern architecture to me...though it looks like this mosque has what RCR calls a "stairway to nowhere"...
Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Christian Scientists all seem to have been hit by an impulse to build ugly church/synagogue buildings since the middle of the last century. In the Protestant world, ugly seems to infect liberals, evangelicals, and charismatics alike. Ugly also knows no national boundaries.
Guardian Angel Catholic church in Las Vegas...
Roman Catholic
Hobbits worship here?
Me too. A couple of the others shown so far are not too bad either IMHO. In the end though what matters far more are the hearts of those gathered in these places rather than the architecture.
Roman Catholic
I'm prayin' on a Jet Plane, don't know if I'll come back again....
LOL, man that was some unfortunate designing.
Bingo! From “Communist Goals” read into Congressional Record, January 10, 1963:
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
If God is Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, it only follows that atheistic Communists would promote Ugliness, Falsehood (churches that look like space ships, atomic reactors, museums, shops, and concrete boxes, anything but a church), and Evil (church which is columbarium looking on outside, strobe lights on inside, church with creepy shadows on ceiling, the church in India which looks like a plane on top of a boat - not Evil, but totally Ridiculous!). Who would want to worship God in a space like that? Church architecture has traditionally pointed towards Heaven, to make the worshipper long for Total Beauty by being surrounded by it. When we are surrounded by Beauty, we feel safe and secure. When surrounded by Ugliness, we feel uneasy, on-edge, uncomfortable, and not directed towards God. We are thinking about ourselves and how weird we are feeling. It is not conducive to a repeat experience. In the language of the 70s, we are “turned off.”
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