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“This book you are holding is designed to take you on a sacred
journey through its pages. In fact, it is a journey that all of us
take daily, just by walking along the streets of Singapore.”
Often we are not fully aware of the artistic, diverse and divine
features of more than a thousand houses of worship, which surround
us in this small, culturally diverse city-state. This
semi-photobook is a humble attempt to give 50 of these sacred
sands/stones the voice required to share their stories with us and
for us to move a little closer to understanding and appreciating
the art and culture of major faiths being practised both locally
and globally. Complementing the refl ections and photography in the
book are astute sketches by renowned Singapore artist, Dr Ho Chee
Lick.
Faith In Architecture is conceived as an extended end-result of
an undergraduate course (Faith in Art) offered as an elective at
the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Nanyang Technological
University (NTU). Dr Gül İnanç, who wrote and lectures the course,
is editor of the book. This book is supported by the National
Heritage Board and School of ADM, NTU.
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Title: Faith In Architecture
Editor: Gül İnançISBN: 978-981-09-5373-7
Size: 230mm x 230mm
Pages: 212
Price: $23.36 (before GST) / $25.00 (after GST)
Year: 2015
Finish: Paperback
Genre: Religion, History, Architecture
(Semi-photobook)
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Gül İnanç is a lecturer at the School of Art, Design and Media,
Nanyang Technolog-ical University, Singapore, offering courses on
art through history/history through art. She holds a PhD in modern
history from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, has written three
books, and published various articles on West Asian diplomatic
history. Her later work focuses mostly on history, intercultural
and global cultural heritage, education for peace, and confl ict
resolution. She is the fi rst Turkish scholar who has taught at
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Universities simultaneously. Her
current projects include: creating student activity books, animated
fi lms, story books, and board games promoting global cultural
heritage; deciphering the codes of contemporary Islamic art in the
interfaith contexts of the 21st century; and investigating ways to
offer university education to the youth of refugee camps. She has
been a board member of the Center for Asian Art and Design (CAAD)
since 2014. Though deeply engaged in a variety of research
projects, teaching remains her foremost passion academically.
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“ is book is a worthy project that celebrates the innate human
desire
for something higher, better and more glorious than mere human
existence
and the very diverse ways in whi this will towards faith in a
higher
something is expressed.”
—Lee Geok Boi
Gül with her students
ho Chee Lick is a Singaporean painter and a scholar of English
language and literature. His sketches featured in the book is from
Ho Chee Lick’s Singapore Faiths series, a body of 385 drawings
capturing religious practices in multicultural Singapore. The
accompanying exhibtion, Homage to the Faithful, curated by Joanna
Lee, features 50 drawings each made on-site, each a spontaneous
response to architecture, history and the practices of the
faithful.
About the Editor
About featured Artist
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50 FeaturedHouses of Worsh
ipBahá’í Centre
Buddha Tooth Relic TempleJin Long Si TempleKong Meng SanPhor
Kark See MonasteryKwan Im Th ong Hood Cho TempleMaha Sasana Ramsi
Burmese
Buddhist TempleMangala Vihara Buddhist TempleWat Ananda
Metyarama TempleWat Palelai Buddhist TempleWat Sattha
Puchaniyaram
Buddhist TempleUttamayanmuni Buddhist Temple
Armenian ChurchBlessed Sacrament ChurchBukit Panjang Gospel
ChapelChrist Methodist ChurchChurch of Our Lady Star of Th e
SeaChurch of Saints Peter and PaulChurch of Singapore (Marine
Parade)Saint Andrew’s CathedralSaint Matthew’s ChurchSaint Th omas
Orthodox Syrian Cathedral
Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniyar TempleSri Mariamman TempleSri
Muneeswaran TempleSri Sivan Temple
Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman TempleSri Veeramakaliamman Temple
Masjid Abdul GafoorMasjid Al-MukmininMasjid Darul AmanMasjid
An-NurMasjid AssyafaahMasjid KhadijahMasjid MalabarMasjid Omar
Kampong MelakaMasjid Wak TanjongMasjid Sultan
Singapore Jain Religious Society
Chesed-El SynagogueMaghain Aboth Synagogue
Syonan-Jinja
Central Sikh TemplePardesi Khalsa Dharmak DiwanSilat Road Sikh
TempleSri Guru Nanak Satsang
Sabha Temple
Poh Tiong Beo TempleTh ian Hock Keng TempleTou Mu Kung
TempleYueh Hai Ching Temple
Zoroastrian House
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desire for something higher, better and more glorious than mere
human existence and the very diverse ways in whi this will towards
faith in a higher something is expressed.” —Lee Geok Boi
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