ABSTRACT
When discussing sacred space in architecture, we are quickly transported to one of human communities’ oldest and most enduring manifestations. For centuries, sacred space has allowed human beings to come into contact with the transcendent domain of his reality through spiritual, cosmological, or religious practices. Although architecture, like the contemporary world, has distanced itself from the Sacred, it is necessary to recognize that throughout its evolution, sacred space has served as an instrument for the progress of the spirit and the realization of human existence in the world. But what is known, and what is thought, nowadays, about the experience of sacred space?
When approaching the experience of sacred space in architecture, it is essential to realize that we are facing an ineffable experience of difficult conception and verbalization that has undergone numerous transformations. Of these transformations, the most relevant for architecture is the separation of this experience between its spiritual and religious interpretation. Through the exposition of the main ideas of contemporary authors regarding the subject, the present article aims to verify how the current transformation of the understanding of sacred space is reflected in the thinking of the discipline of architecture and how it can help us to provide an answer to the question raised.
