Water and Sacred Architecture

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This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values.