Basilica of the Holy Trinity, Fatima - protestant architecture?

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It is just me or anyone else find this Basilica, build in a site of such special Catholic and Marian devotion, frightful bare and protestant in its architecture? I would say it is not even protestant, it looks like a convention hall almost.

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You do know that there’s another beautiful traditional church at the other end of the Fatima grounds (in which the visionaries are interred) and also the Chapel on the apparition site itself? And that for the really big Masses like on the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, they simply have them outside? (Because the crowd couldn’t possibly fit into a church.)

I am not a fan of that church you posted either and it also has a statue of Jesus in it that many people don’t like, but there’s really no need to go in there except that they have Adoration in a Chapel in that building every day. For Adoration, all you need is Jesus. It’s easy to ignore the modernist church when the rest of Fatima shrine is so wonderful, plus there are the stations outdoors near where the children lived and saw the angel.
 
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Why did you choose a picture of the doors instead of the altar? There are two other photos around the one you shared in the Wikipedia link, and both are obviously not Protestant, so why choose this one?
 
The altar has a very questionable Jesus sculpture. But, I choose this one because it reflects my point better.
 
The altar looks like this:
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Nothing questionable IMO.
 
Its just you.
This has to fit an huge amount of people into it.
It is hardly modernist in my opinion, especially with that gorgeous altar. And the lovely representation of the Lamb, and lighting, and that beautiful mural.

That is a lovely representation of Jesus. An artist cant please everyone, some might not like the representation but others do.
What we need to remember is tjis is Jesus crucified and our pechant for the art should not overshadow what it is for.

I second what is questionable about it? Reminds me a bit of one of the indigenous Jesus sculptures I know.
 
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It’s not just you. I wouldn’t call it Protestant since I’ve seen very nice Protestant churches. It’s just bare, modern, and ugly. Lots of churches and secular buildings are built like that.
 
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