ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a general theory of failure such that ‘material failure’ can be understood to occur when ‘objectification ceases to adhere’. It explores the nature of the radical transformation of space, looking at the gaps around the edges of the sensible space of the temple. Drawing on A. Gell’s work concerning sensible and motivic coherence, the chapter argues for the presence of an axis of incoherence. In this way, the failure of the Orthodox temple to map into the Anglican edifice can be seen to be at once overlapping and utterly distinct. Mircea Eliade’s and T. Kollner’s respective works on Orthodox temple, gives the impression that the temple serves as a religious, civic and social anchor for the community. In the slow assemblage of the Orthodox temple within the space of the Anglican building, it is the placement of the antimension that transforms the space from mundane to the sacred.
