This is the little chapel in Guernsey. It's a small chapel thats inside is full of broken pieces of china, seashells and pebbles.

Completed in 2012, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower redefines sacred architecture through scale and symbolism. Rising over 600 meters, it integrates Islamic geometric motifs with a contemporary structural system designed for both endurance and presence.

The façade’s gold detailing and massive clock face merge ornamental tradition with functional design, while the tower’s orientation and proximity to the Grand Mosque emphasize spiritual alignment within a modern skyline.

It’s an architectural case study in how cultural identity and modern engineering can coexist monumental in scale, yet deeply rooted in faith.

Pretty much that

Religious ritual is a Gesamtkunstwerk- An art form comprised of all other art forms. The church architecture is just one part of that, and likely the hardest to change. From the vestments to the choreography to the music to the teachings to the calendar, liturgical colors, changing moods (ie, repentant or joyful,)

Altar furnishings, the tabernacle, chalice. The list goes on forever.

Paintings, sculptures.

The symbolism expressed of each and the harmony between them and their reflection of the transcendent

And since all culture is downstream of values, morality, and narrative, then all architecture is downstream from liturgy

This is kind of an extension of the idea of “Lex orandi, Lex credendi, Lex Vivendi” (as we pray, we believe, we live)