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Places of worship, spiritual healing and urban regeneration

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Many researchers demonstrated that it is possible to help people achieve mental and physical regeneration with proper architecture, urban and landscape planning. The term therapeutic landscapes could also be applied to places of worship, where people gather for spiritual healing and renewal. Public space that they offer is inclusively open to all. Addition- ally, they serve to reinvigorate the places where they are located. Shrines are accompanied by an array of commercial services, starting from transportation hubs to restaurants and hotels. The role of modern sacred places in urban regeneration will be discussed. An example of a modern place of worship, the shrine of Divine’s Mercy in Cracow Łagiewniki, Poland, will be presented. Located on the outskirts of town, it became a new destination for many pilgrimages after the death of Saint Sister Faustina Kowalska in the XX century.

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
Published in:
Urbanistica Informazioni pages 69 - 72,
ISSN: 0392-5005
Language:
English
Publication year:
2014
Bibliographic description:
TROJANOWSKA M.: Places of worship, spiritual healing and urban regeneration// Urbanistica Informazioni. -., (2014), s.69-72
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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