The paper deals with the problem of the power of Christian sacral architecture communication. A place of worship as a spatial necessity in human desire to communicate with transcendency is a result of interaction between Church (institution), congregation and artist(s). Therefore, it is a unique infrastructure for communication through at least three different views: in relation between man and God, in relations between fields responsible for its existence and finally in the relation between the tradition that sacral building belongs to and reality in which it is present. Disorientation of sacral space, its hierarchical inversiveness, the neutrality of its symbolic meanings and ritual arbitrarity are only few pathological signs in Christian contemporary sacral architecture that shows a deep crisis in all of the three presented levels of communication.
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