Arquitetura sacra católica contemporânea e as suas problemáticas: um estudo de caso da Paróquia Cristo sacerdote localizada na cidade de Apucarana - PR

Abstract

The Christian Sacred Architecture nearly along 16 centuries, since its first, has been known by a diversity of styles and a extreme concern to fullfil with primacy the intention of being a worthy local to shelter the Church, the Christ’s Wife, and be able to transcend spiritually the congregation that of this space used. However, with the arrival of XX century, relevants changes in Catholic Sacred Architecture production happened due toModernism, as for to Second Vatican Council. In consequence, the projects of some new churchs were directed to an extreme plainness, forgetting the symbolic importance and thinking only on the functionality, causing a mischaracterization of this architecture, that reflected in contemporary production. Thus, this article have as intention, through bibliographic searches, achieve an analysis of what were some of these transformations and how they interfere in the relationship between the faithful and the space, beyond to look for to highlight the main characteristics of this.