Abstract Temple, Jerusalem, city of shelter. The geography of sacred space transformed into a religion without place. When we consider the history of the temple in Jerusalem, we realise that its holiness became a spatial template for other religious institutions, allowing them, too, t

Abstract Templum and temple. Clarifications on the notion of templum This essay explores the Roman concept of templum. The word has two different, religious, meanings. The first denotes a space which has been divided from earthly space by the words of an augur and becomes the context