Manual guía de Dümmerling para la transformación de espacios sagrados. Un enfoque de Europa Central-Oriental en un ambiente político ateo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

The Sancrosanctum Concilium approaches the artistic aspects of architecture from the liturgy, while the Charter of Venice approaches the architectural space from the principles of heritage protection. Both emphasized simplicity, functionality and readability. The significance and the combined effect of the two documents in the practice of church construction in Eastern Europe can be considered significant, since the possibility of redesigning the liturgical space arose mainly in the context of the renovation of historic buildings in the atheist political environment. The proof of this statement is presented in the manuscript of the architect Ödön Dümmerling. The architect - a practitioner of monument restorations and an admirer of the spirit of modern architecture - was called upon to draw up design guide after the Vatican Council was closed, making recommendations for new equipment for liturgical spaces. Alongside this, we examine the Hungarian architectural practice, which had no possibility of building new sacred spaces, but renovated medieval churches with state-of-the-art restorations in connection with state-sponsored monument protection. In these renovations we find the liturgical spaces testifing the spirit of present age regarding both the defining documents: displaying an immanent value with noble materials, simplicity and functionality