European Temples Are Artificial

The story of why I strongly prefer India temples of worship to European places of worship

India often has a much more “earthly” feel to their temples than European churches

Temples of worship, regardless of your religious beliefs, are a symbol of hominess for the religion and yourself. Architecture for these religious symbols varies heavily across the world and specific beliefs. This article, specifically, will explain why I personally prefer Indian temples to European churches. Keep in mind, I grew up in a Greek Orthodoxy church set up. Greek Orthodoxy, if you’re aware, is an extremely “old school” version of Christianity. Orthodoxy broke away from Catholicism prior to the Protestants for time reference sake.

I grew up in a cold, stone church with stained glass windows. This was the only kind of temple of worship I was aware of until my teenage years, where I started to learn about “contemporary” places of worship setups (welcome to the South, where there’s a church on seemingly every corner, often in a rented in warehouse or old store that went out of business). I didn’t learn about other “worldly” religious temple setups until I was fourteen, where my “world religion” class exposed us to numerous different types of religious architectures.

One of my personal issues I had with these cold churches was the fact that it was cold and completely removed from the…