Cultural church

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"Kulturkirche" is a new word created by those responsible for the church and is not used uniformly. Sometimes there is also talk of “art station” or more generally of “themed church” . In German-speaking countries, it is understood to be a church that is used temporarily or only for social or artistic purposes. The ambiguous word is used to designate both churches which, in addition to cultural use, continue to be used for church services, as well as secular church buildings.

Examples of cultural churches in mixed use are:

Examples of cultural churches after profanation are:

Examples of cultural churches in other European countries:

Individual evidence

  1. Room - Christ Church Bochum. In: christuskirche-bochum.de. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  2. https://www.lutherkirche-nippes.de/projekte/kulturkirchekoeln/
  3. ^ Andreas Mertin: Saint Eustache . A cultural church. In: Ta katoptrizomena: magazine for theology and aesthetics . No. 60 , 2009, ISSN  1616-8925 ( theomag.de [accessed February 9, 2019]).