Modernist Church

Corpus Chirsti highlights the architectural aesthetic of the new places of worship and their jymm to minimalism, which has represented a genuine creative inspiration in modern religious architecture.

Participating in a movement initiated in the 1920s and perpetuated by great architects such as Guillaum Gillet, Gottfried Bohn and Auguste Perret, most of these churches were built in the 1950-60s.

Scattered throughout Europe and the world, the reveal a new conception of the sacred, a representation of the divine imblued with modernity, thus triggering a debate and a rejecttion from some architects and members of the clergy.