The Syriac Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches in the world. It employs the oldest surviving worships in Christianity. The Syriac Orthodox Church has about 5.5 million members, with only 231 remaining churches. This project explores the most important and traditional elements for a church, with a focus on the developing possibilities on traditional structure into contemporary approach. A modern proposal in Södertälje Centrum for both religious and non-religious people.

The main goal of this project is trying to understand how a modern church looks like. If it follows the same principles like traditional churches and or weather the new liturgy needs new idea of nowadays signs. What affects the religious architecture, weather it's designed in a context of a intense housing developement.

В данной работе с лингвистической точки зрения рассматривается современный церковнославянский текст, написанный в тридцатые годы двадцатого века: акафист святому Иоанну Кронштадтскому. Рассмотрение акафистов представляет особый интерес для исследователей церковнославянского языка, так как этот жанр является одним из ценных лингвистических источников, позволяющих восполнить малоизученность и недостаточное описание современного церковнославянского языка. Работа состоит из двух глав – теоретической и исследовательской. В первой главе приводится история возникновения, периодизация и проблемы изучения современного церковнославянского языка. Во второй главе проводится исследование грамматических форм, синтаксических конструкций, используемых в тексте акафиста, характеризуется и анализируется лексический состав акафиста, путем сопоставления употребления определенных словоформ в церковнославянском и русском языках делаются выводы об обоснованности перевода тех или иных конструкций на современный русский язык. На основании лингвистического анализа сделан перевод акафиста на современный русский язык. / Šiame darbe lingvistiniu aspektu analizuojamas dabartinės bažnytinės slavų kalbos tekstas, parašytas XX a. ketvirtame dešimtmetyje: Akafistas Šv. Ioanui iš Kronštadto. Akafistų tyrinėjimas labai svarbus mokslininkams, nes šis žanras yra vienas vertingiausių lingvistinių šaltinių, leidžiančių užpildyti spragas tyrinėjant mažai žinoma ir nepakankamai aprašyta dabartine bažnytine slavų kalba. Darbas susideda iš dviejų skyrių - teorinė dalis ir mokslinis tyrimas. Pirmajame skyriuje pateikiama bažnytinės slavų kalbos atsiradimo istorija, jos periodizacija, bei dabartinės bažnytinės slavų kalbos tyrinėjimo problemos. Antrame skyriuje tiriamos gramatinės formos, sintaksinės konstrukcijos, kurios naudojamos akafisto tekste. Charakterizuojama ir analizuojama akafisto leksinė sandara. Lyginant tam tikrų žodžių formas dabartinėje slavų kalboje, su rusų kalbos formomis, daromos išvados apie jų vertimo pagrįstumą į šiuolaikinę rusų kalbą. Remiantis padaryta lingvistine analize akfistas buvo padarytas teksto vertimas į dabartinę rusų kalbą. / This work examines the modern Church Slavonic text: The acathistus to Saint John of Kronshtadt, which was written in the thirtieths of the XX century, from the linguistic point of view. The researchers of the Church Slavonic language pay serious consideration for the examination of acathistus, because this genre is considerd to be one of the most valuable linguistic sources, which gives the possibility to fill in the gaps in the unsufficient knowledge of the modern Church Slavonic language. The work consists of two chapters: the theoretical and reseach ones. The first chapter presents the history of the origin, the division of the periods and the problems of the study of the modern Church Slovonic language. The second chapter presents the reseach of the grammar formes, syntactical constructions, which are examined in the text of the acathistus. The lingvistic structures of the acathistus are characterized and analised. The comparison of certain word forms used in the Church Slavonic and Russian languages makes it possible to draw a conclusion about the validity of the translation of some constructions into the modern Russian language. The translation of the acathistus into the modern Russian language is based on the linguistic analyses.

This diploma thesis deals with the urban study on the revitalization of the barracks in Brno, the Black Fields. In the defined area a new residential complex is designed to integrate the area into the surrounding area. The proposal also envisages the creation of development areas for Mendel University, where within these areas will be created a sports hall, accommodation facilities for students library and a representative building. An interesting element is the creation of a public space shielded from traffic.

The design of the Church “Seslání Ducha Svatého” with the spiritual center in Líšeň, Brno answers the question: "How should the contemporary church look like?" Analysis of the site, awareness of the character and requirements of today's time, historical and cultural continuity and liturgical changes of the last century gave rise to 7 points of the architecture of the new church. This program describes the new liturgy, defines the form of the subordinate community of believers, characterizes the work with the material envelope of the inner space, establishes the relation between the horizontal and the vertical and the curved and rectangular, explains the theme of orientation and work with the interior. The final urban and architectural solution is based on these assumptions. The spiritual center, consisting of a multifunctional hall, a classroom, a club-room, a rectory, a cafeteria with a library, and underground garages with technology, is geometrically rigid, layered and precisely fitted, while church is completely different in its shape and scale, indicating functional and sacral differences. The abstract form of the church refers to the inviolability of God. The interior of the Church is a place of silence, a pure and noble space, formed by higher order principles. Another important way of expression becomes light as the creator of the spiritual space. An important part of the proposal is also the principle of organizing a church with a spiritual center around the inner square opened to the south by a wide entrance staircase.

Theme of this project is new building proposal of The Sword of the Holy Spirit church and spiritual center, located in Brno-Líšeň. This part of the Brno is 6 km northeast away from the city center. This proposal include building or construction of the church with rectory. Main goal was to create a dignified place for worship and also for meetings of parish comunity. This place should to point out on spiritual importance of whole building with its architecture, construction engineering, dispositions and artistic solution. The church is connected with congregation of the Selesians of Don Bosca in Líšeň, whose main goal is education of youth in the spirit of Christian traditions. One of the requirements was to create modern church not only for the comunity of Selesians, but also for the general public. The church which will benefit its surroundings and gives new life into this place. Architectural solution of church is trying to follow an idea of proposal based not only from character of the sacral building, but also from biblical motives. The church should remind hug of the God, who is in love to the people. The ring describes one of the main principles of Selesians – looking for everything what connects people, education in faith, comunity. In proposal is calculated with spiritual center including multifunctional hall, classrooms, adoration chapel, offices, apartment for pastor and also with occasional accommodation. Parish center is geometrically accurate, rectangular and precisely fitted. While building of church is different by its shape and character. It creates a dominant of the in surrounding panel housing estate. This dominant does not disturb surrounding because of its clean lines and used materials – white concrete.

Fifteenth-century diplomatic protocol required the city of Florence to send diplomats to congratulate both new and militarily victorious rulers. Diplomats on such missions poured praise on their triumphant allies and new rulers at friendly locations. However, political realities also meant that these diplomats would sometimes have to praise rulers whose accession or victory opposed Florentine interests. Moreover, different allies and enemies required different levels of praise. Jealous rulers compared the gifts, status, and oratory that they received from Florence to the Florentine entourages sent to their neighbors. Sending diplomats with too little or too much social status and eloquence could spell diplomatic disaster. Diplomats met these challenges by varying the style, structure, and content of their speeches. Far from formulaic pronouncements of goodwill, diplomatic orations varied from one speech to the next in order to meet the demands of the complex diplomatic world into which they fit. Contextualizing these orations reveals the subtle reservations of diplomats praising a hostile ruler, the insertion of specific citations to flatter specific audiences, and the changing intellectual and stylistic interests of humanists throughout the fifteenth century. This essay will examine the different shades of flattery practiced by Florentine diplomats and the contexts that explain these variations.

A need for new churches arose in Sweden during the 1950’s when modern suburbs for the growing urban population were developed around the Swedish cities. Four architects, Peter Celsing, Sigurd Lewerentz, Hans Borgström and Bengt Lindroos, who were known for their profane modernist architecture, were commissioned to design three churches in Stockholm's new districts: S:t Tomas kyrka in Vällingby, St. Markuskyrkan in Björkhagen and Söderledskyrkan in Farsta and all were inaugurated in 1960.  The purpose of the essay is to investigate how the sacral textiles of the three modernist churches look like in the year of inauguration and how they related to their respective contexts in the form of the modernist church rooms 1960. The investigation is done with the help of the questions: How do the sacral textiles look like in the modernist neighborhood church? Why do they look the way they do? What has influenced their appearance and design? The questions are answered with the support of the theories Material Culture and the performativity theory, and the investigation is carried out using Material Culture as a method and the textile science documentation method. In order to be able to determine what modernity was in the contemporaneity of the sacral textiles, whimsical terms have been operationalized, which are taken from the contemporary literature that speaks about what the modern can be or not be. This is a theoretical starting point from which the investigation into modernity starts.  The result of the investigation shows that the sacral textiles in their newly manufactured parts was influenced by the modernist church context. It appears in the essay that the influencing factors were several and they appeared in the context of the church ́s liturgy, the architect ́s visions and the designers’ artistic signature in expression. These gave effect in different ways to the appearance and design of the sacred textiles.