r/nowaythatsachurch

This concrete church may look like a bunker from the outside, but the interior is very light and organic with light materials. A simple outdoor bell tower of wood is a contrast to the concrete.

The church is carved into the underground in an extremely hot area of Austrlia, so still a comfortable temperature inside.

Pictures are taken in 2024.

The building almost burned down in 2023 but luckily firefighters managed to save it. One year after the fire Lidköpings Baptist congregation celebrated their 130 year anniversary.

Gug Church was built in 1977. Architects Inger & Johannes Exner.

It's built in brutalist style with raw concrete and effectively zero decoration. It is situated by itself as if on an island and seems impregnable. It seems more like a fort or maybe even a prison than a church. Inside however there is a beautiful light and it seems almost warm in contrast to its exterior.

Photo 1 is the side view. Photo 2 is the front, which is just behind some shops along Kalakaua Boulevard (parallel to the shoreline) in Waikiki.

Saalem-Seurakunta (Salem Temple) in Helsinki, Finland.

Baunekirken (kirke=church) was completed in 1977. The architect was Kristian Kristiansen.

It's has a very unique design as in Denmark round churches are only found on Bornholm and very few elsewhere. And those are about 800 years older than this one.

Inside you can perhaps see the likeness to the old round churches, but from the outside it looks like the architect was inspired by - perhaps - Le Corbusier.

Holy Cross Church (Hellig Kors Kirke) was completed in 2008. The architect was Jan Søndergaard. The design means few right angles.

From above there is a cross visible (last image).

This building is already the third church building of the St. Canisius parish, which was founded in the 1920s: The first was destroyed by aerial bombs during World War II; its successor - a structure built in 1955 according to plans by architect Reinhard Hofbauer, featuring wide-spanning parabolic arches - burned down completely in April 1995 (last picture). Seven years later, the current building - designed by the Berlin architects Büttner, Neumann, and Braun - was completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation\_Greek\_Orthodox\_Church

Bagsværd Church near Copenhagen was built in 1976 by the world famous architect Jørn Utzon most widely known for the Sydney Opera House.

The exterior has elements of industrial design of the modernism, but also got some elements from a typical white Danish rural church.

Inside there is a fabulous natural light coming from the outside, and the church rooms have an amazing lightness and airiness to them.

Recently I stumbled upon this building in Budapest. Intrigued by the big angelic statue I wondered what it would be. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture so this one is from google maps, but there I also found the answer: a catholic cemetery for urns. I wonder what the story is behind what is possibly a big metal patron.