Article: The construction of sacred space in the urban ecology.(Report)

Entering the old furniture factory, Muslim worshippers quietly slip out of their shoes before finding a space on the prayer carpet. Not far away, Mennonites silence their animated greetings as they move into the renovated iron works factory and enter into private meditation in preparation for worship. A few blocks away, the simple altar in the small storefront church, adorned with plastic flowers around the wooden cross, inspires no less reverence than a majestic Basilica, as these Pentecostal worshippers whisper, and then shout, their adoration of God. On one city street, ordinary space becomes holy ground--all without the assistance of the architectural forms that ...

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