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“This book you are holding is designed to take you on a sacred journey through its pages. In fact, it is a journey that all of us take daily, just by walking along the streets of Singapore.”

Often we are not fully aware of the artistic, diverse and divine features of more than a thousand houses of worship, which surround us in this small, culturally diverse city-state. This semi-photobook is a humble attempt to give 50 of these sacred sands/stones the voice required to share their stories with us and for us to move a little closer to understanding and appreciating the art and culture of major faiths being practised both locally and globally. Complementing the refl ections and photography in the book are astute sketches by renowned Singapore artist, Dr Ho Chee Lick.

Faith In Architecture is conceived as an extended end-result of an undergraduate course (Faith in Art) offered as an elective at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Dr Gül İnanç, who wrote and lectures the course, is editor of the book. This book is supported by the National Heritage Board and School of ADM, NTU.

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Title: Faith In Architecture

Editor: Gül İnançISBN: 978-981-09-5373-7

Size: 230mm x 230mm

Pages: 212

Price: $23.36 (before GST) / $25.00 (after GST)

Year: 2015

Finish: Paperback

Genre: Religion, History, Architecture

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Gül İnanç is a lecturer at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technolog-ical University, Singapore, offering courses on art through history/history through art. She holds a PhD in modern history from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, has written three books, and published various articles on West Asian diplomatic history. Her later work focuses mostly on history, intercultural and global cultural heritage, education for peace, and confl ict resolution. She is the fi rst Turkish scholar who has taught at Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Universities simultaneously. Her current projects include: creating student activity books, animated fi lms, story books, and board games promoting global cultural heritage; deciphering the codes of contemporary Islamic art in the interfaith contexts of the 21st century; and investigating ways to offer university education to the youth of refugee camps. She has been a board member of the Center for Asian Art and Design (CAAD) since 2014. Though deeply engaged in a variety of research projects, teaching remains her foremost passion academically.

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“ is book is a worthy project that celebrates the innate human desire

for something higher, better and more glorious than mere human existence

and the very diverse ways in whi this will towards faith in a higher

something is expressed.”

—Lee Geok Boi

Gül with her students

ho Chee Lick is a Singaporean painter and a scholar of English language and literature. His sketches featured in the book is from Ho Chee Lick’s Singapore Faiths series, a body of 385 drawings capturing religious practices in multicultural Singapore. The accompanying exhibtion, Homage to the Faithful, curated by Joanna Lee, features 50 drawings each made on-site, each a spontaneous response to architecture, history and the practices of the faithful.

About the Editor

About featured Artist

50 FeaturedHouses of Worsh

ipBahá’í Centre

Buddha Tooth Relic TempleJin Long Si TempleKong Meng SanPhor Kark See MonasteryKwan Im Th ong Hood Cho TempleMaha Sasana Ramsi Burmese

Buddhist TempleMangala Vihara Buddhist TempleWat Ananda Metyarama TempleWat Palelai Buddhist TempleWat Sattha Puchaniyaram

Buddhist TempleUttamayanmuni Buddhist Temple

Armenian ChurchBlessed Sacrament ChurchBukit Panjang Gospel ChapelChrist Methodist ChurchChurch of Our Lady Star of Th e SeaChurch of Saints Peter and PaulChurch of Singapore (Marine Parade)Saint Andrew’s CathedralSaint Matthew’s ChurchSaint Th omas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral

Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniyar TempleSri Mariamman TempleSri Muneeswaran TempleSri Sivan Temple

Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman TempleSri Veeramakaliamman Temple

Masjid Abdul GafoorMasjid Al-MukmininMasjid Darul AmanMasjid An-NurMasjid AssyafaahMasjid KhadijahMasjid MalabarMasjid Omar Kampong MelakaMasjid Wak TanjongMasjid Sultan

Singapore Jain Religious Society

Chesed-El SynagogueMaghain Aboth Synagogue

Syonan-Jinja

Central Sikh TemplePardesi Khalsa Dharmak DiwanSilat Road Sikh TempleSri Guru Nanak Satsang

Sabha Temple

Poh Tiong Beo TempleTh ian Hock Keng TempleTou Mu Kung TempleYueh Hai Ching Temple

Zoroastrian House

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