arcă noetică şi euharistică a Logosului pentru postmodernitate: Biserica „Sfinţilor Ioan Botezătorul, Teologul şi Hrisostomul” şi a „Sfinţilor Martiri Brâncoveni”
A Noetical and Euharistic Ark of the Logos for post-modernity: the Church of the “Sains John the Baptist, John the Theologian, and John Chrysostom”, and of the “Brancoveanu Holy Martyrs”

Summary/Abstract: The church “Saint John (the Baptist, the Theologian and Chrysostom) and Saint Brancovan Martyrs” from Alba Iulia has a special story, unfolded for a whole decade, 2005- 2015, being debated from architectural and iconological point of view in the cultural and ecclesiastic Romanian area, after 1989. Its architecture, drafted by the most important contemporaneous Romanian architect, Dorin Ştefan, was theorized by Augustin Ioan as privileged example of „retrofuturism” concept and falling into archetypal and minimalist trend. The form proposed by the architect wishes to be a resonance box of liturgical mystery, an ecumenical shrine, an arch of converting (arca noetica), a diachronic metaphor of basilican morphologies etc. Realized symbolic synthesis has multiple sources: Brancusian plastic morphologies, Arbore church, an Athonite cell-church, chapel of Corbusier from Ronchamp, a series of minimalist installations. Preparation for embellishment with fresco generated two iconographic projects (Sorin Dumitrescu and Ioan Popa), one diagrammatic and another typological, being chosen the last one, based on a theology of signs connected with baptismal and Eucharistic typology (Baptism and Eucharist, Church Easter). Iconographic programme made by painter Ioan Popa in collaboration with parish priest Jan Nicolae includes an unwound rotulus with images and texts, between mega-scenes depicted between the two minor apses: Anastasis and Pentecost, connected in a rhombus placed over a square with the scene of germination of primordial waters, in the first case, and with that of Throne of Ethimasia, in the second, thus being created, theologically, a connection between protology/ historicity and eschatology, and morphologically, the image of a baptismal font and universal panel.

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