The Emotional Evolution And The Architecture Expressing Of The Christian Holy Space

Soul of the Architecture is space. The conduction on the thematic meaning expression and emotional color of space is an indispensable part of the Architecture theory. The church is a kind of building, which is of profound sense and with special Emotional color. And the interior space of the church always shows the Religious thematic meaning best.Church has changed a lot during the period of 2,000 years from the origin of the Christian. This article defines the main space in the church as "the Christian holy space", where accommodates the believers and religious ceremonies are taken place and shows the religion spirits. In order to know the themes and spirits of this kind of space, this article studies the different emotional color and verified architecture expressing modes showing in the Christian holy space during different historical period.With this purpose, this article divides the evolution of the Christian holy space into 4 stages in perspective of history and Religious Psychology. The first, the holy space of the church transformed from the underground to the ground. The second, Emotional color of the Christian holy space turned from sorrow to pleasure. The third, object of the Christian holy space concerned transformed from the divinity to the believers. And the fourth, the single theme of the Christian holy space changed to be diversified. At the end of the article we try to find out the law of this holy space's evolution.