The article deals with the problem of the interconnection between the traditions and new searches for the Orthodox church image in architecture, the importance of their relations in the modern world. The opinions of professional architects on the problem of modern church architecture are rather different. Some believe that today the traditions must be continued. Others welcome innovations and experiments in the spirit of the modern architecture of secular buildings and reject the tradition as outdated and inconsistent with the spirit of modernity. Over the centuries, the ideas of a striking aesthetic novelty arose more than once. The architects, designing new churches, search for architectural forms that, according to contemporaries, bring us closer to our past and revive our national identity. The preservation of the sacral factor in the architectural search,for the church novelty without excessive extravagance remains an inviolable condition of church architecture.
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