The Future for Religious Heritage Biennial Conference aims to stimulate a real debate on the usage of Europe’s religious heritage and to discuss the range of uses available for this heritage and their practical application.

Whether it is used as a place of worship, as a resource for community development, as a space for cultural expression, Europe’s religious heritage deserves our full attention and dedication to its sustainable preservation for communities throughout Europe. The conference will examine issues such as the traditional use of religious heritage sites and their compatibility with being open to the general public.

It will address the case of ‘Heritage for All’, or the potential for inclusiveness of religious monuments and the adaptations this implies for this heritage. It will underline the importance of an inter-religious dialogue of knowledge for the better reuse of a heritage marked by its primary religious use. Finally, a light will be shed on the ‘museumisation’ of religious heritage, an interesting model in many ways for publicising the treasures of religious monuments.

The topics of the events will be based on the four subthemes of the conference.

•  Event 1: ”Continuity in Function or Use” (28 May 2021 – Barcelona, Spain).
•  Event 2: “Continuity in Community Connection /Community and Dialogue” (September 2021 – Bologna, Italy).
•  Event 3: “Continuity in Evolving Cultural Expressions” (October 2021 – Halle, Germany).
•  Event 4: “Continuity in Care and Safeguarding” (November 2021 – Brussels, Belgium).

Registration for the first event (28/05/2021) “Continuity in Function or Use” can be found here.

For more information contact: info@frh-europe.org