doorway or portal to your religion
A doorway is an entrance or a passageway between rooms and an exit from someplace else. Doors can become an entrance to nearly anything, but it is most commonly used to symbolize the entrance to another world.
An open door has been a long-time symbol of a new beginning. An open door shows that there’s a way out and can also provide a view of what lies ahead. A closed or locked door, on the other hand, can represent a dead end or create the feeling that there’s no way out. Sometimes a doorway symbolizes the transition and passageway from one place to another. A door is often used to symbolize the passage from one world to another in religion, mythology, and literature.
A threshold, that space underneath a door, is typically a boundary and point at which two places meet. It is where two worlds come together and provide a point of passage. Reaching or crossing the threshold is associated with rebirth and leaving the past behind.
Just as a door that’s an entrance represents a beginning, a door that’s an exit represents an end. But it often symbolizes both an end and a new beginning. There’s an element of hope that there’s something on the other side of the door.
Part of your work for this unit is to design and build a doorway to your religion. Your doorway must have the following components:
1. Throughout history religions have tries to communicate with their followers, to share their histories and traditions. Many followers could not read the sacred texts from their traditions so religious communities had to use other ways to tell their stories of faith. Art was one of the tools they used. Your door will be divided into six equal rectangles. Each rectangle will have an illustration that tells part of a story from your religious tradition that your group selected.
2. Symbols have always been very important to religion. Symbols are objects or designs that represent something else (the Hindu Ohm or the lamb in Christian symbolism). Above your door will be a lunette. A lunette is the space within an arch above the door. Inside the lunette you will draw what your group thinks is an important symbol from your religious tradition.
3. All religious traditions have sacred texts. Christians have the Bible, Muslims have the Koran, Buddhists have the Sutras. Sacred texts form the cornerstone of a religion, teaching its people its laws, history and spirituality. Your group will select a page of sacred text from your religion and incorporate that text into your project by displaying it at the entrance to the door. You must display the text in its original language as well as an English translation.
The Christian Bible was written primarily in Greek.
The Islamic Koran was written in Arabic.
The Jewish Tanakh was written in Hebrew.
Buddhist and Hindu texts were written in Sanskrit.
An open door has been a long-time symbol of a new beginning. An open door shows that there’s a way out and can also provide a view of what lies ahead. A closed or locked door, on the other hand, can represent a dead end or create the feeling that there’s no way out. Sometimes a doorway symbolizes the transition and passageway from one place to another. A door is often used to symbolize the passage from one world to another in religion, mythology, and literature.
A threshold, that space underneath a door, is typically a boundary and point at which two places meet. It is where two worlds come together and provide a point of passage. Reaching or crossing the threshold is associated with rebirth and leaving the past behind.
Just as a door that’s an entrance represents a beginning, a door that’s an exit represents an end. But it often symbolizes both an end and a new beginning. There’s an element of hope that there’s something on the other side of the door.
Part of your work for this unit is to design and build a doorway to your religion. Your doorway must have the following components:
1. Throughout history religions have tries to communicate with their followers, to share their histories and traditions. Many followers could not read the sacred texts from their traditions so religious communities had to use other ways to tell their stories of faith. Art was one of the tools they used. Your door will be divided into six equal rectangles. Each rectangle will have an illustration that tells part of a story from your religious tradition that your group selected.
2. Symbols have always been very important to religion. Symbols are objects or designs that represent something else (the Hindu Ohm or the lamb in Christian symbolism). Above your door will be a lunette. A lunette is the space within an arch above the door. Inside the lunette you will draw what your group thinks is an important symbol from your religious tradition.
3. All religious traditions have sacred texts. Christians have the Bible, Muslims have the Koran, Buddhists have the Sutras. Sacred texts form the cornerstone of a religion, teaching its people its laws, history and spirituality. Your group will select a page of sacred text from your religion and incorporate that text into your project by displaying it at the entrance to the door. You must display the text in its original language as well as an English translation.
The Christian Bible was written primarily in Greek.
The Islamic Koran was written in Arabic.
The Jewish Tanakh was written in Hebrew.
Buddhist and Hindu texts were written in Sanskrit.