Sacred Space
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Sacred Space
Landsowne & Bloor Toronto
• Where a church and a strip joint stand
next to each other
Sacredness
• Has obvious connection to religious faith
– Faith makes some places/spaces/times
sacred
– And some places non-sacred, profane
Sacredness
• But secular culture creates/assigns
sacredness
– Children, pets, patriotism become sacred
– Shrines of revered politicians, sports heroes,
entertainers
Religious Sacredness
• Varies according to the faith tradition
– Sacred directions, orientation
– Places of worship
– Sacred landscapes
– Sacred journeys, pilgrimage
– Places devoted to the organization & practice
of faith
– Places within the home, community
• Church of the
Holy
Resurrection,
Winona Dr,
Toronto
• Rogers Rd,
Toronto
• Dolly’s
– Bloor &
Dovercourt
Scared Places
• Sudanese Mosque at Larabanga, Ghana
• Tsion Church, Axum, Ethiopia
• Rock-hewn church, Lalibela, Ethiopia
• Ura Kidana Mihret Monastery, Ethiopia
Secular Equivalence
• Sacred directions– Greenwich meridian
• Secular shrines– Maple Leaf Gardens, Graceland
– Dollywood, Hollywood, Bollywood, Gollywood, Nollywood
• Sacred journeys– The Long March of Chinese communism
• Sacred landscapes– Canadian rockies, prairies
• Star-Wars Wedding, Hull QC
• Ribfest 2013
• Christmas in Fairbank
Sacredness
• With or without religious faith humans tend
to sacralise space, place, time
Profanity
• The flip side of sacredness
• Some things symbolise the antithesis of
the sacred
• Things can be both sacred and profane
– Auchwitz symbolises the worst of evil but is
also sacred as a grave site, place of
martyrdom
Washington DC
Abbey Road
• A Beatles’ album
from 1969
• Photo taken
outside Abbey Rd
EMI studios,
London UK
Musical Shrine
Contested Meaning
• Abbey Road studios used by other bands
– Pink Floyd fans try to claim the place
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