Faith & Form, as an organization and a journal developed over a 40 years period. Its roots include the Church Architecture Guild of North America founded in 1940; Guild for Church Architecture founded in 1965; and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA, now part of AIA). Faith & Form represents clergy, lay leaders, artists, architects, and landscape designers concerned with design for worship. It is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization incorporated in Washington, DC and a quarterly magazine, Faith & Form. The group also sponsors a yearly Religious Art and Architecture Design Awards program. To view the 2009 honorees, [click: here].
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Sunday, 21 March 2010
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., is the pre-eminent Marian shrine of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Envisioned by its founder, Bishop Thomas J. Shahan (1857-1932) as a “monument to artistic truth” that would speak with “divine eloquence,” the Shrine is home to the largest collection of contemporary ecclesiastical art in the United States. Amid a rich patina of mosaics, sculptures, and artistic renderings, the more than 65 chapels and oratories reflect not only the devotional traditions of the American Church but also the rich ethnic mélange of the Universal Church. In 1990, Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) named the National Shrine a minor basilica, the 36th in the United States.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
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