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Ecumenical Centre, chapel, stained glass
Switzerland
06 September 11 @ 18:18
© Nikos Kosmidis/WCC
Canon EOS 450D
1984x1332
Abstract stained glass windows run along the exterior chapel walls. Both the architect, Eric Moller, and the interior designer, Knud Lollesgaard, were from Denmark and they used Nordic furnishing and natural materials in their design. Lollesgaard says he set out “to use…only nature’s own colours, so that it shall not act as a disturbing element, but as a humble expression of our longing for God – our dependence on the things created by Him: the sun, the earth, the trees, the light, the darkness, the day’s changing into night…The window wall is supposed to form a background for the things held most sacred by all Christians: the Holy Bible and the Cross of Christ, just as earthly things form a background for our spiritual life.†Above the windows, latticed oak screens admit diffused light.