Abstract:
The Church is the only architectural program able to illustrate the
cohesion between matter and spirit. Faith acts as a binder of the relationship
between religious experiences, aesthetic emotions and rational solutions. The
structure materializes the sacred, while the accompanying associated arts
assigns aesthetic and spiritual meanings. Worship spaces consist on the basis of
rigorous canons which are founded on symbolic meanings. Regarding these
religious ideologies, the vision of these spaces is probative for revealing their
concept of life, world and divinity. The symbol, a link between visible and
imaginary, between concrete and intuitive, expresses clearly the relation
between divine and world. It and represents an indicator to what is beyond it,
but remains always linked in the present reality. This paper aims recognizing
and interpreting the symbolic elements of vegetable inspiration used in the
Orthodox worship spaces, metaphorical images of archetypal space.
