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"worship space" refers to a place or area specifically designed or used for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer, worship, or religious ceremonies. It is a space where people gather to express and practice their faith.
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Their model church was a small one, with a horizontal emphasis, accommodating no more than a few hundred in a
circular worship space that encouraged a sense of belonging.
A formal church with hundreds of members, on the other hand, will require you to secure a
dedicated worship space and find employees to help manage church activities.
The mixing of traditions is reflected
in worship spaces that incorporate elements of the particular ethnic groups.
Sacred Spaces is an occasional series on the Belief Blog taking an inside look at
worship spaces from unique perspectives.
In a recent article on Christianity Today's website, Jason Hood raised issues about inviting Muslims to share
worship space with Christians.
She said Destiny Church used to hold worship services in a high school gymnasium, but was gifted its new
worship space by another church.
Megachurch worship spaces are essentially theaters, with comfortable seats fanned out before a large stage flanked by huge video screens.
The
large worship space, dominated by a stage for bands and electronic equipment, allows this faith community to demonstrate its beliefs out in the open, for anyone in the parking lot to see.
Our ideas
about worship space come from our different religious traditions, our social enclaves, our sense of history (or lack of it), and our personal worship experiences and desires.
In this installment, CNN Senior Photojournalist Anthony Umrani takes us inside Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, a
Hindu worship space near Washington, DC.
Moreover, Catholics and Evangelicals can assist one another in various circumstances by, for instance, defending one another from unfair public attacks,
providing worship space and other facilities in times of need, and by taking up offerings for one another's charitable works.
Editor's Note: In this occasional series, the Belief Blog looks
inside worship spaces from faiths around the world.
Churches in New York City gained an unexpected ally in a long - running standoff over whether they can use public schools as
worship spaces on Sundays.
«We now have a warm, dry and
comfortable worship space that is suitable for all manner of services, whether traditional or less formal.»
I believe concerns about sacred -
profane worship space are always in submission to Jesus» command to welcome the stranger and love our enemies.»
Prisoners also
get worship space, exercise time, they even take school classes while in prison.
Duke University's reversal of today's plan to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from its historic chapel tower has reinvigorated a debate over
shared worship space.
A few minutes later, we're invited to interact with some prayer stations for the city that have been set up at various points around
the worship space.
That is the WHY of the National Cathedral, and with it the joy of the Episcopal Church in providing and welcoming all to
the worship space of the Cathedral.
But don't mistake her emergence in
the worship space as less than intentional.
Allow
the worship spaces of the church's life to speak to the pains and burdens people carry.
If we begin to live that way in
our worship space, then it will begin to trickle out outside of them.
If we begin to live that way in
our worship space, then it will begin to trickle out outside of them.national scale.
Happily, the days of Pizza Hut «
worship spaces» seem over.
In fact, most of
these worship spaces are either converted warehouses, theaters or rented school auditoriums.
Worship space should make us aware of our senses, remove us from the ordinary experiences of life, and prepare us for worship and fellowship.
The large girder in
the worship space and the fragile zigzag wall behind the stage allow for easy expansion as the church grows.
The transparent church front is echoed in the glassy walls of
the worship space itself.
You can go to the garden of the ancient church and cut some flowers, and bring them into
the worship space in a vase, and they will do much good, providing beauty and fresh life.
Some Protestant churches, like Zwingli's Grossmtinster in Zurich, removed all images from
the worship space.
Perhaps the experience is best summed up by one worshipper who, upon departing from
the worship space, exclaimed: «Something happened here today!»
The liturgical performance in the meeting house at Spring Glen is framed by the tolling of a bell which tells those within and outside
the worship space «what time it is».
Though no two gatherings are exactly the same, a typical evening might begin with corporate worship and then break up for participants to work their way through a series of interactive stations flanking
the worship space.
Any time you can walk into so - called «multicultural»
worship spaces and not tell the difference between it and a Hillsong or Bethel worship concert (taking nothing away from Bethel and Hillsong), we have embraced a sunken - place theology.
Churches that invite black people and people of color into their «multicultural»
worship spaces, but implicitly ask black singers to leave gospel music behind, ask black musicians to leave their hammond B - 3 behind or suggest that black preachers need to leave the fire of their «hoop» or preaching passion behind is a sunken - place theology.
In an old gothic church in south London, images of the city are projected on white sheets that surround
a worship space.
The worship space was divided into two halves by back - to - back projection screens.
A few minutes later we are invited to interact with some prayer stations for the city that have been set up at various points around
the worship space.
Instead of dedicating sacred space for all believers, certain leaders had commercialized
a worship space.
The size and shape of
the worship space should also be considered carefully.
The duo creates artistic alternatives to traditional leaded stained glass for
worship spaces, schools, commercial environments, public spaces and private homes.