The Water Temple is a wave rising in the heart of the desert, as an artistic sanctuary and living altar, evoking water's ancient memory — and its message for today's world. Laser-cut metal panels are lit from the outside; inside, a centerpiece containing sacred world waters uses cymatics to project sound into shape, as frequency casts visible forms on temple walls. Indigenous prayers from the Brazilian Amazon, whose traditions seeded this dream and blessed this project, are played as a promise to world waters — that we return to, protect and preserve our spiritual relationship to life-giving water. In remembrance, reverence, and reconnection, our mission grows together. We belong. We are water. We are sacred.
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The Water Temple By Douglas & Yaosca Jackson - Temple Pillars & Visionaries Morten Ortenbald, Design and Architecture

Photo by: Dan Adams

Year: 2025

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The Water Temple is a wave rising in the heart of the desert, as an artistic sanctuary and living altar, evoking water's ancient memory — and its message for today's world. Laser-cut metal panels are lit from the outside; inside, a centerpiece containing sacred world waters uses cymatics to project sound into shape, as frequency casts visible forms on temple walls. Indigenous prayers from the Brazilian Amazon, whose traditions seeded this dream and blessed this project, are played as a promise to world waters — that we return to, protect and preserve our spiritual relationship to life-giving water. In remembrance, reverence, and reconnection, our mission grows together. We belong. We are water. We are sacred.

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