Sacred space is hard to define, but it's something many of us have experienced in our lives. The challenge for designers and architects is to find ways of evoking the divine through structures and shapes.
Every year for the past 30 years, Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture have honored outstanding religious architecture and design through their annual awards program. This year's winners were selected by a panel of five independent judges, and they demonstrate the diverse and creative ways in which human beings experience and depict the sacred.
View the 16 winners of the 2015 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award below:
St. Katharine Drexel Chapel, New Orleans
Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon New Home, Bend, Oregon
Lara Swimmer
Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio
Mark Menjivar
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The Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Blind Dog
Immanuel Chapel, Alexandria, Virginia
Peter Aaron/OTTO
The Light of Christ’s Salvation Church, Taichung, Taiwan
Wei-Ming Ruan, Te-Fan Wang
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Our Lady of Montserrat Chapel, Seattle
Andrew Pogue
St. Pius Chapel and Prayer Garden, New Orleans
Will Crocker Photography
St. Edward Catholic Church, Keizer, Oregon
George King
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Saint Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, West Jordan, Utah
Dana Sohm
RockPointe Church, Flower Mound, Texas
Charles Davis Smith
St. Vincent de Paul Church, Albany, New York
Michael F. Joyce
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Congregation Beth Israel, Vancouver, Canada
Michael Elkan
New Orleans East Hospital Chapel, New Orleans
Mark Bienvenu
St. Monica Catholic Church, Dallas
DVDesign
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Fiedler Atrium, Dallas
Nick McWhirter
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