Religious Building Studies
Niall McLaughlin's contest-winning college chapel completes
Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed this £2 million chapel for Ripon Theological College in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire
Top 10: World's most spectacular modern churches
A Christmas list of avant garde places to worship, from Germany to Japan and America to the Ivory Coast
Piercy & Co’s reveals Ealing church with 'spire-like' folding roof
Piercy & Company has unveiled plans for this 1,200m2 scheme for the International Presbyterian Church in Ealing
A history of mosques in Britain
The British mosque is a teasingly unrestricted archetype: onion-domes and minarets are cultural, not religious
Beacon Hill Baptist Church, Owasso, Oklahoma
How we approached the design of a new church in the Midwest prairies by DRDH
Sacred space
The drive to build places of worship began when hunter-gatherers first erected pillars at Göbekli Tepe 12,000 years ago and hasn’t stopped since
Bricks and Torah
van Heyningen and Haward’s New North London Synagogue is low key and austere, with moments of beauty, Photography by James Brittain
Fletcher Crane unveils church hall plans
Emerging practice Fletcher Crane Architects has revealed these plans for a new £450,000 community hall in Teddington, south-west London
Heatherwick completes Worth Abbey revival
Heatherwick Studio has completed its refurbishment of Francis Pollen’s 1974 Abbey Church at Worth, Sussex
Conservation: St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London
Technical & Practice: Castanon Associates put its faith in simplicity for the renovation of St Patrick’s church in London’s Soho Square, writes Felix Mara
Calls Architecture completes south Leeds church
Calls Architecture has unwrapped this £805,000 church centre on the Belle Isle estate in south Leeds
Dilston Grove Refurbishment, Bermondsey, London, by Walter Menteth Architects
Walter Menteth’s deliberately raw refurbishment of two decrepit sacred shells has transformed the best-kept arts secret in Britain, writes Rory Olcayto. Photography by Ben Blossom
Page\Park unveils new granite-clad cloister for Glasgow’s Metropolitan Cathedral
A £4.4m refurbishment and extension of St Andrew’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Glasgow has been completed by Page\Park Architects
Trentham lands planning for mixed-use church building
[First look + project data + plans] Michael Trentham Architects has won planning permission for this project to build a church and apartments in Southwark, London
Dunshaughlin Pastoral Centre, County Meath, Ireland, by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects
McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects’ Dunshaughlin Pastoral Centre is a vibrant heart for a recession-struck Irish community, says Rory Olcayto.Photography by Richard Hatch
Halliday Clark submits expansion plans for religious retreat
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Halliday Clark Architects has submitted plans for this £6.5 million, religious retreat on the edge of Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales
Chelsea Barracks chapel: Hodge ignores English Heritage again
Architecture Minister Margaret Hodge has gone against English Heritage (EH) advice for the second time in a week after refusing to list a chapel at the heart of the controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme
Gurkha Temple, South Wales by Scott Brownrigg
[IMAGES + DATA] Proposals for a Gurkha Temple at the planned £700 million Defence Technical College in South Wales
From the Archives: La Tourette by Le Corbusier, 1960
Read the AJ’s original verdict on Le Corbusier’s Dominican Monastery in this article published in the AJ on October 20, 1960.
St Anne’s Home for the Little Sisters of the Poor, London by Daniel Hurd
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] The new St Anne’s Home in Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London for the Little Sisters of the Poor, an international Hospitaller Order of nuns who care for the elderly poor, was completed earlier this year at a cost of £25 million
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