The article discusses the role of sacred architecture in the Roman Catholic Churchʼs efforts for Christian unity, following a clear Council definition of the identity of Christian art on one hand and paradoxical Churchʼs agreement to its presence in multi-religious spaces on the other. This attempt is justified by the architectural sincerity, reflecting the clientʼs frequently hidden starting values and making them a sensory-perceptual image of the architectural art. A rich, two-thousand-year-old coexistence of variable efficiency of the Church and its sacred architecture reveals both the distinguishing as well as connecting features, where the former appear to be more prominent. The path of deep self-realisation, which reveals the archetypal matrix of sacred architecture, opposes the path of the Christian sacred architecture adaptation to trendy anaemia, which undermines its identity. This matrix is sketchily presented in the early Christian architectural interpretation in order to show that it remains, besides the artistsʼ creative flexibility, one of the solid foundations of the striving for unity.
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