Honoring Sacred Beauty: 2024 Faith & Form Award Winners Announced
Partners for Sacred Places has announced the winners of the 2024 Faith & Form International Awards for Religious Architecture & Art—a global celebration of sacred space, creativity, and the ways our built environments reflect the presence of God.
This year’s awards recognized 20 outstanding projects across categories such as new facilities, restoration, renovation, sacred landscapes, advocacy, and religious arts. A total of 79 entries were submitted from five countries, reflecting Christian, Jewish, Quaker, and multifaith traditions. Since 1978, the awards have honored architectural excellence and faithful creativity in religious spaces. In 2024, jurors emphasized design that not only elevates sacred space but serves community needs and spiritual formation.
Among this year’s awardees is a project close to home for our synod: the TSG Foundation Center for Spiritual Development in Scottsdale, Arizona, designed by GHC Orcutt|Winslow. This new facility received recognition in the Religious Architecture / New Facilities category for its integration of form, light, and spiritual purpose. It’s a beautiful example of how sacred spaces can inspire reflection and deepen connection with God.
The awards also highlight inspiring work such as the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church & National Shrine in New York City, restored sites like San Gabriel Mission in California, and imaginative religious art including the Haywood Street Fresco in Asheville, North Carolina.
From liturgical art to adaptive reuse, each project invites us to reflect on how space helps shape and hold our experience of the divine. In our Lutheran tradition, we affirm that God meets us in ordinary places and through human hands. These spaces are not just buildings—they are vessels for community, worship, and the unfolding of God’s mission in the world.
Nominations for the 2025 Faith & Form Awards open August 1 and close October 10, 2025. Architects, artists, and religious communities are encouraged to submit their projects at faithandformawards.com.
Let us give thanks for the artists, builders, and communities whose work gives visible shape to the invisible grace of God.
