Built on the land of the Biddegal people
A finite description of sacred architecture is, by its nature, almost impossible to satisfactorily articulate. How do you give form to religion and to the spiritual, that which transcends the material world, existing outside of time and space? In architecture, the sacred can perhaps only be hinted at by a ray of light moving across a wall, the soft rounded edge of a pew, or a choir of resounding voices coming together in prayer or song. The sacred asks much of architecture: to be art; to be poetic; to be beautiful; to inspire awe; to embody ambiguity; to give rise to sensations beyond words or descriptions.
Religious buildings, symbolically expressing their status, have traditionally been located at town and city hearts, around which
