Some of the lectures from the series ‘Religious Architecture in the Mediterranean World’ have been recorded and published on our YouTube channel.

‘Religious Architecture in the Mediterranean World’ is a project that stems from an agreement between the Rectorate of Medeniyet University in Istanbul and the Dominican Study Institute (DoSt-I) in Istanbul, with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul, the Cervantes Institute – Istanbul, the Network of Centres for Christian-Muslim Relations (NCCMR) and the Depo Pergamon architecture training initiative.

The lectures published are:
Pablo Millán: Capilla del Santisimo Sacramento (12 June 2025, in Spanish)
The design of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in Martín de la Jara is characterised by its austere and contemplative style. Located in the rural setting of this small village in the province of Seville, the chapel combines modern lines with references to Andalusian architectural tradition.

Jurtin Hajro: Ballie Mosque (26 September 2025, in English)
Hajro challenges existing conventions in religious architecture with his design for the Ballie Mosque, built in 2023 in the historic centre of Elbasan, characterised by the historical layers of Roman, medieval, Ottoman and modern Albania.

Charles Desjobert: Le Corbusier and the Sainte-Marie de La Turette Priory (28 October 2025, in English)
Desjobert gave a lecture on the Priory of Sainte-Marie-de-la-Turrette, designed by the famous modernist architect Le Corbusier in Lyon. As both a Dominican friar and an architect, he highlighted the interaction between contemporary monastic life and modernist architectural design.

Ercan Ağırbaş: Sinagog-Kilise-Cami (14 November 2025, in Turkish)
Ağırbaş, with the mosque and synagogue located around a church built in Gelsenkirchen in 1774, transports the dialogical model between religions and cultures into urban space with a contemporary design language.

Waleed Arafa Hassan: Basuna Mosque – Egypt (5 December 2025, in English)
Waleed Arafa Hassan sought to combine contemporary architectural language with vernacular references in his design and place it within the urban context. He reinterpreted traditional forms such as the dome, minaret, altar and pulpit with a contemporary and innovative design language. Ultimately, his design evolved into a work of art that dialogues with the surrounding urban fabric and the cemetery.