<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Mental hospitals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries resembled independent cities and were designed to fulfil all patients’ needs, including spiritual. The idea of psychiatric care and healing also embraced the spiritual aspect of life. Churches, chapels and cemeteries were an indispensable part of many mental asylums of the time. The article explores the position of sites of worship in psychiatric hospitals and examines the place of sacred architecture and spaces in their layout and composition.</abstract>

Mental hospitals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries resembled independent cities and were designed to fulfil all patients’ needs, including spiritual. The idea of psychiatric care and healing also embraced the spiritual aspect of life. Churches, chapels and cemeteries were an indispensable part of many mental asylums of the time. The article explores the position of sites of worship in psychiatric hospitals and examines the place of sacred architecture and spaces in their layout and composition.

Sacred architecture and sacred areas in the designed space of mental health hospitals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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Sacred architecture and sacred areas in the designed space of mental health hospitals from the late 19 and early 20 centuries

Mental hospitals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries resembled independent cities and were designed to fulfil all patients’ needs, including spiritual....

Sacred architecture and sacred areas in the designed space of mental health hospitals from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 5 - 19

Received: Jul 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.112.8887

Keywords
sacred spaces, mental hospital in the past, landscape, composition

© 2019 Anna Staniewska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Sacred architecture and sacred areas in the designed space of mental health hospitals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 5 - 19

Received: Jul 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.112.8887

Keywordssacred spaces, mental hospital in the past, landscape, composition

© 2019 Anna Staniewska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Sacred architecture and sacred areas in the designed space of mental health hospitals from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries

Keywords
sacred spaces, mental hospital in the past, landscape, composition