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May 6, 2025
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Ephemeral Religious Architecture-The Visits of the Pope to Madrid

Publicated to:Religions. 16 (4): 500- - 2025-04-14 16(4), DOI: 10.3390/rel16040500

Authors: Hualde, Ignacio Vicens; Abengozar, Jose Antonio Ramos

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Arquitectura, Dept Proyectos Arquitecton, Ave Juan De Herrera 4, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

On the occasion of mass religious events, liturgical ceremonies leave the temple and occupy public space. That is the case of the visits of the Pope or World Youth Days. How does architecture approach the ephemeral construction of this space? What architectural strategies can be used? In the city, the roles are inverted, and the exterior public space becomes an interior delimited by streets and facades that contain the assembly of faithful. How can this urban transformation be "designed"? This article presents several architectural strategies materialized in a series of ephemeral religious architecture projects in the city of Madrid: the stands for the visit of the Pope in Santiago Bernab & eacute;u Stadium, Plaza de Col & oacute;n, Plaza de Cibeles, and Cuatro Vientos airfield. Each of these projects, located in very different urban settings, proposes a different architectural approach. It is evident how the architectural project is, in each case, a response to the characteristics of the urban site in which it is located. City and architecture establish a direct and reciprocal relationship, in which the urban form shapes the architecture that hosts the religious event; vice versa, architecture integrates the city, its limits, its streets, and its facades into the project.

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Ephemeral architectureMadriReligious architectureSacred spaceUrban space

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Religions due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category . Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-22:

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (VICENS Y HUALDE, IGNACIO) and Last Author (RAMOS ABENGOZAR, JOSE ANTONIO).

    the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been RAMOS ABENGOZAR, JOSE ANTONIO.