Vatican Council Remembrance Church in Vienna

 

Yes, that is how this Church on Cardinal Koenig Platz is referred to most of the time. Also known occasionally as the Church of St Ignatius. Erected 1967-8. Staffed by Jesuits (no surprise here!). Perhaps a more accurate translation would be Memorial Church.

   

Not much art and the art there is is bad modern.

   

This concrete stairway is not going to heaven.

   

Cold, concrete inhuman. Strange that the Council proclaimed humanism and then architecture like this was the result.

   

The youth group in the parish is called the Praystation and seems to confuse salvation with going on a package holiday. 

   

Within the parish is the Jesuit training centre Cardinal Koenig House. They are very proud of their meditation room. They do have a chapel but in their promotional material, this is classified under "other rooms". 

   

For comparison, the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. Where did it all go wrong?