If an idea waits thirty years to become reality, it’ll probably result in something exceptional. At least this is what happened in the case of Brno’s new Roman Catholic church.
Architect Marek Jan Štěpán has been contemplating building a contemporary church for thirty years. However, he only managed to realize it recently in the middle of one of Brno’s housing estates full of concrete buildings, where a complete church quarter was formed around the temple.
The church of 25 meters diameter and 18.5 meter height is dedicated to beatified Marie Restituta who was born approximately 600 meters from its location. Next to the circle-shaped building, there is a tower with a triangular floor plan and a square-shaped spiritual center, thus all three basic geometric elements are represented in the complex.
The circle has always been a symbol of heaven and eternity, and it also symbolizes wholeness in this case, while also alluding to the Last Supper, when Jesus and the Apostles sat around a table for the last time. The building is otherwise also full of symbols: the triangular opening, for example, serves as a reference to the tear in the Jerusalem temple curtain.