III.   Sacred

Sacred architecture, also known as religious architecture, is a term describing the design and construction of Temples, Sanctuaries, Altars and other structures by deliberately adopting certain geometry, numbers, ratios and symbols considered important and sacred for a particular Religion or Cult.

The largest and most important structures of ancient civilizations until the age of the corporate skyscraper were sacred structures such as Temples, Cathedrals and Basilicas. The largest, most impressive and permanent monolithic buildings created in history still standing from ancient times are religious structures constructed around Sacred Architecture.

As Religious buildings have historically been the largest and most impressive structures of any city for millennia, their location, ratios, even positioning in relation to ley lines, horizon and astronomical effects of the sun and moon throughout the year have almost always played an integral part in its design and architecture.

Almost all great sacred temple structures of ancient civilizations represented within their architecture a calendar device of the movement of the sun, the moon and the major constellations. One of the most important architectural devices of a temple was the “V” measuring the movement of the sun throughout the year and re-setting by aligning perfectly with set points in the temple complex. This remains true with even modern great temple complexes such as the giant pagan temple complex built atop Vatican hill in the 16th and 17th Centuries known as St. Peter’s Basilica and Square.

Many great temple structures also represent within their architecture significant occult symbolism, especially fundamental principles of fertility, death, renewal, balance and unity. This is especially true with the greatest example of a pagan temple representing the sexual intercourse of the sun-god with the mother-goddess Cybele of the earth on key days in the deliberate architecture of St. Peter’s colonnades forming the shape of a female vagina and uterus and the shadow the obelisk in St. Peter’s square expanding to many times its size at the setting of the Sun to “pierce” the front of St Peter’s.