Missio House Chapel

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The missio house chapel (also missio chapel ) is a Catholic church room in the House of the World Church , the headquarters of the International Catholic Missionary Organization ( missio ) in Munich . It consists of the so-called house church and the sacrament chapel .

History of origin

The house chapel was established in 1988 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ludwig Mission Association . According to the wishes of the then president of missio Munich, Prelate Heinrich Haug, the chapel was to show the new understanding of mission with images of Christian African art, which combines the Christian message with high values ​​of African culture.

Design

The Ku-Ngoni Center for Crafts of the Mua Mission in Dedza in Malawi , founded by Father Claude Boucher, was selected for the design . 16 of his artists designed a rich program of carving art for altar , canopy , ambo , priest seat , altar candlestick, Easter candlestick , Christ tree, two ancestral trees (picture program "The worship service gathering in the Holy Forest) and eight thematic groups of trees or trees as wall decorations as well as the chapel door ( Outside theme: All life flows out of God ; inside theme: All life returns home to God ) with the image program: The cycle of life in the sacred forest . For the sacrament chapel, the cycle Das Dorf (meaning: inhabited cultural area as opposed to the untouched wilderness) was used. created with the objects: The woman with the child and the corn basket , the corn field , the fireplace and the storage hut .

Picture gallery

Sister Chapel in Malawi

A counterpart to the missio chapel is the house chapel of the central hospital in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, which was also designed by Ku-Ngoni and financed by missio .

See also

literature

  • Sister Elfriede Bohn (author), Wolfgang Pufer, Fritz Stark (pictures), Claude Boucher, Wladyslaw Kaminski (drawings): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000

Web links

Commons : Missio-Hauskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sister Elfriede Bohn (author), Wolfgang Pufer, Fritz Stark (pictures), Claude Boucher, Wladyslaw Kaminski (drawings): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000
  2. ↑ to the organization name: Click on the imprint on the homepage: Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 8, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.missio.com
  3. ↑ K. Lachenmayr: Die Missio-Hauskepelle , in Sister Elfriede Bohn (author), Wolfgang Pufer, Fritz Stark (pictures), Claude Boucher, Wladyslaw Kaminski (drawings): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000, pp. 4–5.
  4. ^ Sister Elfriede Bohn (author), Wolfgang Pufer, Fritz Stark (pictures), Claude Boucher, Wladyslaw Kaminski (drawings): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000, p. 16
  5. ^ Sister Elfriede Bohn (author): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000, p. 58
  6. ^ Sister Elfriede Bohn (author), Wolfgang Pufer, Fritz Stark (pictures), Claude Boucher, Wladyslaw Kaminski (drawings): All life is change. Christian carving from Malawi in the missio chapel , missio-Munich 2000, page legend in cover

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  E