The Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord - New adaptation of the liturgical space

The altar canteen is derived from a basic geometric shape - a compressed half-shell. Perhaps
can evoke a cup, a cup or a well, a drop, or even an abstracted heart. The pressed half is fitted with a stainless steel spindle, giving the impression of levitation, while serving as a sepulchrum - the relic shelter. The curved shape of the canteen provides a certain extraordinary character to the new liturgical site, but at the same time it finds its reflection in the original central circular luminaire as well as in the semicircular section of the crypt. The process cross is mounted in the hole in the right front corner of the stage. A portable altar candle stands in its left front corner.

The stadium and the new altar canteen are made of Cara marble. The stone underlines the permanence of the liturgical site and its correspondence and equivalence with the existing main features of Plečnik's liturgical landscape - with the ambones and the old main altar and the sanctuary, which we retain its function. All new seats for celebrities and ministers are inside the original presbytery. Sedes of the main celebrant is no longer on the top of the old altar where the position collided with the tabernacle. It is newly placed on a small wooden staircase with a height of two steps. It is attached to the staircase of the main altar. It is located outside the main axis of the entire composition. Sedes is designed as a modern stainless steel towel, supplemented with natural cowhide leather that forms its seat and backrest.

photo: Petr Neubert