What our church buildings say about us – Sacred Space Symposium
What if our church buildings could talk? What if our temple walls could speak? What would they tell us about our faith?
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, the director of University of Minnesota's religious studies program, studies the sacred spaces people use for worship. She is like a "horse whisperer" for church buildings. She looks carefully at their designs and uses — and asks a simple question: "What does a particular space and its use tell us about sacredness?"
Kilde spoke at the "Sacred Space Symposium," sponsored by the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding at BYU, on Wednesday, June 3.
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