The Architecture of Religious Growth:  An AAIA IDK National Town Hall

Much of the conversation in architectural circles about architecture and religious institutions focuses on how religious communities are shrinking and need to find ways to repurpose their legacy buildings. A less examined intersection concerns where congregations are growing, and how they shape their surrounding environments. It also explores how the needs of these congregations influence their spaces differently from traditional churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples, and conversely, how the spaces these communities choose affect their worship experience.

Share with us examples from your area, projects you have done or sites you know about, that would contribute to a national conversation that explores what religious growth looks like now. You can upload images and talk about how growing faith communities around you are using architecture to make meaningful spaces for worship, education, housing, and other uses.