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"The Temple is the reflection of the Divine
world. Its architecture is the image of how men represent the Divine; the effervescence of life in the Hindu temple,
measure in the temples of the Acropolis, wisdom and love in the Christian temples, the alliance of the Earth and the Sky in
the Islamic mosques."
The Grand Mosque of Niono, Mali (1973)
Designer and Master Mason: Lassina Minta, Niono, Mali
(Photo by Kamram Adle)
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The Great Mosque of Niono, Hypostyle Prayer Hall
Designer and Master Mason: Lassina Minta, Niono, Mali
(Photo by Kamram Adle)
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
" They are like the terrestrial replicas
of celestial archetypes and in the same time cosmic images. Cosmology and Theology are thus solidary in the minds of men,
as much as they are in their works which they dedicate to the Gods."
Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
"Dictionnaire des Symboles"
Temple of Concord, Akagras, Sicily
(Photo by Lucien Steil)
"It is true that the Greek gods most realistically
promise mankind nothing, but they will, and do, aid human beings who pursue their ways with spirit.
Any modern man who says he does
not know them does not know his own mind, because, if he has tried to deal with the reality of things as they are, the appropriate
Greek gods have been there with him, cloaking him in their power:
Aphrodite in love, Apollo in clear reasoning,
Dionysos in ecstatic possession, Zeus in justice, Athena in right action and divine effrontery, Ares, the big-kneed, in the
loutish skills of war."
Vincent Scully
"Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade"
(St. Martin's Press, New-York)
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566)
by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
(Photo by Mary Ann Sullivan)
"The temple is the dwelling of God on
earth, the place of the Real Presence."
Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
"Dictionnaire des Symboles"
La Madeleine Church, Paris (1764-1845)
by Constant d'Ivry (1698-1777), Guillaume Martin Couture (1732-1799), Barthelemy Vignon (1762-1828)
(Illustration from "Geschichte der Baukunst", Dr. D. Joseph)
"A synthesis of the macrocosmos, the temple
is also an image of the microcosmos: it is in the same time the world and man. The body is the temple of the spirit, and reversedly
the temple is the body of the Divine person."
Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
"Dictionnaire des Symboles"
La Madeleine Church, Interior, Paris
by Jean-Jaques Marie Huvé (1783-1852)
(Illustration from "Geschichte der Baukunst", Dr. D. Joseph)
New Synagogue in Berlin (1859-1866)
by Eduard Knoblauch (1801-1865) and Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865)
(Illustration from "Die Geschichte der Architektur", Dr. D. Joseph)
The New Synagogue of Berlin (1859-1866)
by Eduard Knoblauch and Friedrich August Stüler
(Illustration from "Geschichte der Architektur", Dr. D. Joseph)
"Man's way to the temple is always a symbol
of spiritual fulfillment"
Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
"Dictionnaire des Symboles"
(Editions Robert Laffont /Jupiter)
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