Partners for Sacred Places presents the winners of the 2023 Faith & Form Awards for Religious Architecture & Art. The awards program was founded in 1978 with the goal of honoring the best in architecture, liturgical design, and art for religious spaces. The 2023 awards recognized excellence in the creation, restoration, and re-use of religious spaces, the designing of religious landscapes, and the making of religious art.

We want to thank our 2023 awards jury: Robin Edward Whitehurst, FAIA (jury chair), Jacquelyn Block AIA, Jennifer Correia, Steven Rajninger, FAIA, and Daniela Holt Voith, FAIA. We also want to thank Michael J. Crosbie, FAIA, who has organized and overseen the awards program for many years.

Award winners are:

RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE/ NEW FACILITIES

Award

Arrupe Hall
Merion Station, PA
Moto Designshop

RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE/ RESTORATION

Award

US Naval Academy Chapel Dome Rehabilitation
Annapolis, MD
BELL Architects, PC

RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE/RENOVATION

Honor Award

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue / Reimagining a Historic Synagogue
Detroit, MI
Neumann/Smith Architecture

Harvard Divinity School, Swartz Hall
Cambridge, MA
Annum Architects, Inc.

Awards

Ahavath Achim Synagogue
Atlanta, GA
Siegman Associates, Inc.

Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Northfield, MA
Harrison Design

Mother Temple
Lu’o’ng So’n, Hòa Bình, Vietnam
Akasha + Associates architecture

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church
Bryn Mawr, PA
Voith & Mactavish Architects

ADAPTIVE RE-USE/RE-PURPOSE

Award

Pratt House, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
L.E.FT Architects

RELIGIOUS ARTS

Honor Award

Jerba 366: Gravel Mosque
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
L.E.FT Architects with Iheba Guermazi and Beya Othmani

SACRED LANDSCAPE

Award

Freedom Pavilion—World Peace
Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

STUDENT WORK

Honor Award

The Borges Cloisters
Austin, TX
Gabriel Colombo

Award

The Nine Valleys—A Bahá’í Temple for Canada
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Vedad Haghighi

Nominations for the 2024 awards can be submitted July 1 through October 11, 2024. Visit faithandformawards.com for more information.