Catholicism at the Eastern Border of Europe: Construction Works by the Catholic Church in the Post-Communist Countries at the Turn of the Millennium

Vukoszávlyev, Zorán (2010) Catholicism at the Eastern Border of Europe: Construction Works by the Catholic Church in the Post-Communist Countries at the Turn of the Millennium. In: A Living Presence, Extending and Transforming the Tradition of Catholic Sacred Architecture, 2010.04.30-2010.05.01, Washington.

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Abstract

Middle-Eastern Europe is on the historical ridge of Catholicism. In the history of the lands now consisting of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary the presence of Catholicism is dominant. For centuries, these most eastern countries of the Roman Catholic Church have been the combatants of faith located in the close vicinity of orthodoxy and Muslim states. The constructing activity of the Church was unbroken even in the changing state-formations. In the 20th century the international modern architecture of Europe has been enriched with outstanding compositions in the church-architecture of these countries. The progressive architectural style animated the new functional approach of the catholic reform movement as well: the composition of churches followed the functional arrangement of early Christian sacral space even between the two world wars. The dynamically developing Church employed the most well-known architect, in this way the national styles could also appear beside modernism: the romantic buildings emerging from secession and using traditional vernacular forms.

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