Christianity, ready for the stars
[ by Charles Cameron — the Russians were first with Sputnik, can Orthodoxy in space be far behind? ]
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Unfinished TV tower in Yekaterinburg may be turned into St. Catherine Church:
Yekaterinburg architects created a concept of the highest church in the world: they suggested combining in one project a cult building and the notorious unfinished construction, Yekaterinburg TV reports.
“According to the concept, they are going to combine the unfinished construction and the cult building in one cosmic-shaped construction, though it is far from architecture of Orthodox churches,” the TV channel reports.
According to the authors of the idea, they wanted to suggest an alternative to “the church on water,” which was voiced among others projects of Yekaterinburg church.
Church or TV? What’s your preference?
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Then there’s that enchanted phrase, “the church on water”..
Well, there’s the church of Our Lady of the Rocks in the Bay of Kotor, off Perast, Montenegro:
photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, License CC-BY-SA 3.0
It’s supported on water, to be sure, though it doesn’t appear to walk on it —
More explicitly, there’s the church that seems to be actually named Church on the Water in Hokkaido, designed by architect Tadao Ando
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In what might be seen as an interfaith move, Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando also designed the Water Temple in Hompukuji, on the island of Awaji, Japan:
Wikiarquitectura tells us:
The Water Temple is the residence of Ninnaji Shingon, the oldest sect of Tantric Buddhism in Japan, founded in 815.
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Revelation 22.17:
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
