Sacred Architecture Journal

05/11/2026

Duncan Stroik will be speaking on Traditional Masonry in the 21st Century in Cape May, NJ. Register for the conference below:

https://www.traditionalbuildingshow.com/speakers?utm_medium=email&utm_source=TDB+-+IP+-+Traditional+Building+Conference&oly_enc_id=5845B5825412A5Y

04/10/2026

"From Maryland, founded as a haven for English Catholics, to the scattered communities of Virginia, the Carolinas and what would become West Virginia, Catholic life developed under very different conditions."

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story now turns southward.

04/07/2026

"Critics describe a canopy built to shield medieval carvings in Angers as a ‘concrete UFO’, while supporters say it follows a centuries-old tradition of change"

Critics describe a canopy built to shield medieval carvings in Angers as a ‘concrete UFO’, while supporters say it follows a centuries-old tradition of change

03/25/2026

"Silent disco planned at church in cemetery where Beethoven is buried"
Read more here: https://thecatholicherald.com/article/silent-disco-planned-at-church

03/23/2026

Duncan Stroik on the legacy of the classical architect.

03/17/2026

"Historically, ethnic churches were not solely religious institutions; they were incubators of social and personal identity. They demanded things from the individual that modern Americans find alien."

Some years ago, I was a resident at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, a small postindustrial town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. In a free moment,...

03/13/2026

"At stake is not merely style, but theology: how the Church understands worship, the human person and the relationship between beauty and truth."

And why does it matter?

03/10/2026

"Sagrada Familia, then, is a wonderfully strange place, a fantastic remaking of the world, a carnivalesque symphony, that runs from the lowest notes of the world to the highest."

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the great medievalist-modernist architect from Catalonia. Barcelona is celebrating in a variety of ways, from a commemorative...

03/03/2026

"Sea pulpits – shaped like fish, whales and boats – are perhaps one of the strangest manifestations of how the ocean plays a surprisingly strong role in Christian iconography."

The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across central Europe. We’ve caught several in our net

02/23/2026

"Who expected that Notre-Dame Cathedral would emerge from the debris and lift its spire once more over the roofs of Paris, just five years after the fire of 2019? That it could do so is due in no small part to Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), the architect who restored it in the 19th century and whose extraordinary drawings helped guide its new restoration."

The Bard Graduate Center devotes an exhibition to the dazzling drawings of the man responsible for Notre-Dame’s 19th-century restoration.