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Santuario Dom Bosco
Carlos Alberto Naves | |
| location | Brasília |
| function | church, religion |
| contributed by | haaijk |
The Santuario Dom Bosco (Sanctuary of Dom Bosco) in Brasília honors the Italian saint who dreamed of a utopian city in 1883. Brasília, the modern capital city of Brazil, is inspired by this dream. From the outside, the Santuario Dom Bosco is a concrete box with tall lancet window openings. The interior of the shrine is a wondrous space, filled with heavenly blue light filtering through windows that cover virtually the entire walls - 2200 sq. m. in total. The windows of the Dom Bosco Shrine are made of small squares of stained glass in 12 different shades of blue with dots of white, designed by Naves and manufactured by Belgian artist Hubert Van Doorne in São Paulo. Some of the windows swivel open for ventilation. At night, a different spectacle of light dominates the interior: a huge golden chandelier made of 7400 pieces of Murano-glass by architect Alvimar Moreira. A large crucifix above the altar was carved from a single cedar tree by Gotfredo Tralli (text from Sacred Destinations).
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