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TRADITION IN INNOVATION NEW AND OLD SYMBOLS IN CONTEMPORARY ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
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Two thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a truth of God and like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between theology, iconography and architecture in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional archetype-symbolical structures and application of new conventions in the Orthodox temples. The effects of design and creation work serve as a basis to classify these objects as traditional.
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