Constructed contrasts and manipulated experiences: the cathedral at Gerasa and its relationship with the adjacent Temple of Artemis complex

Buildings interact with, influence, and are influenced by other adjacent nearby buildings landscape features. Whether intentionally or not, complex spatial, architectural experiential relationships were created when early churches built to non-Christian religious buildings. The cathedral at Gerasa, in northern Jordan, was a Temple of Artemis can only be satisfactorily understood exploring both the architecture each that existed between them. This is achieved through analysis combination with user experience-led method, focussing upon how users experienced light considering impact civic memory on understanding. comparative experiences impacted understanding institutions represented, while knowledge past appropriated create bridges known less well-known Christian contexts hierarchies.