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Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland, UK by Níall McLaughlin Architects

The Faith Museum by Níall McLaughlin Architects in Bishop Auckland, UK, combines the godly with the profane

Village and chapel renovations in Ruesta, Spain by Sebastián Arquitectos

Elena Lacilla Larrodé

Working in and around the Spanish village of Ruesta, Sebastián Arquitectos deftly rebuild its ruins

Feilden Fowles' Fratry hall additions at Carlisle Cathedral

Prayer and repair: Carlisle Cathedral in Carlisle, UK by Feilden Fowles

Rosie Gibbs-Stevenson

Bethnal green mission church stefanie rhodes architectural review

God’s plan: Bethnal Green Mission Church in London, UK by Gatti Routh Rhodes

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Capela Ingá-Mirin, Itupeva, Brazil by Messina Rivas

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Revisit: Lewerentz’s St Peter’s

Eleanor Beaumont

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Nicolás Campodonico: ‘symbolism is replaced with rituals’

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Branching out: Agri Chapel in Nagasaki, Japan by Yu Momoeda Architecture Office

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Memorial service: Belarusian Memorial Chapel in London by Spheron Architects

Eleanor Beaumont

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AR_EA 2005 Prize winner – Church Complex in Louisiana, USA by Trahan Architects

Essays on faith, death, and sacred space

The last page: roadside spirits

The last page: the marooned church of Megalopoli

Remediation works: cleaning up after the Manhattan Project

Sands of time: the Dilmun burial mounds of Bahrain

Shannon Street Mosque: demolition postcard

Rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia

Heart of stained glass: divinity and wealth in windows

Soulton poems with an extract from Modern Air

Arakawa (1936-2010) and Gins (1941-2014)

Living death: confronting mortality and associated practices of care

Memory loss: post-terrorist sites in Norway

Britain in Seoul: The path to Korean modernity

Moscow’s ‘Program 200’: You’ve got to have faith, faith, faith

Plan Común: ‘architecture is a common field of knowledge’

Typology: Crematorium

Outrage: ‘if memorialisation is everywhere, it becomes mere virtue-signalling’

‘In deciding future strategies to accommodate the dead, communities are adapting ancient traditions’

Dying with Dignitas

Housing the dead

Editorial: Can design make a difference in a moment of paralysing grief?

Typology: Multifaith

‘Abstract forms were espoused more quickly by the German church than by industries’

View from Cyprus: Selimiye mosque’s identity crisis

Folio: Louis Kahn’s unbuilt synagogue

‘Architecture does not teach us what the sacred is, but it may touch it and draw others to it’

Typology: Tombs

‘To control Temple Mount is to control the political narrative’

Modern monasteries

‘Religious buildings are beginning to take on recognisable 21st-century typologies’

‘Key to understanding Hawksmoor’s work is comparing the whole and the part’

From Russia with Wood: Crumbling timber churches

Niall McLaughlin Architects win chapel competition

John Soane and the furniture of death

‘A church remains a monument whatever the spiritual or material loss from disuse’

Manplan 5, Religion Part I: ‘environments created in times of religious strength reflect man himself’

Manplan 5, Religion Part II: ‘Moslems, Buddhists, Christians: there is an underlying similarity of attitudes’

Manplan 5, Religion Part IV: ‘Buildings for Cult’

Manplan 5, Religion Part III: ‘has religion a future?’

Manplan 5, Religion Part V: ‘Church design has embarked on a process of fundamental change’

‘The hospital as an inflexible monument of civic pride remained so until the second half of the twentieth century’

‘Bombs clattered down on St. George’s-in-the-East – only the sturdy shell remains’