Local Memory and Urban Space

The paper ponders over the issue of memory and urban space. It shows how these categories have been discussed in literature they are connected to problem place identity. also highlights need appreciate assess physical aspect objects, which act as markers author argues that what is being memorialised conveyed meaning past lived experience. As a case point, two acts analysed paper, clearly showing interdependence various temporalities anniversary celebrations. In festivities celebrating 100th (in 1881) 150th 1931/2) anniversaries consecration Lutheran church Warsaw, capital Kingdom Poland Russian partition later resurrected independent Polish state after 1918, different present-oriented needs were mirrored narratives commemorations past. Idiosyncratic visions help make small vulnerable community Lutherans an otherwise primarily Roman Catholic environment more coherent, its members may lay claim history construct stabilise their identification process descendants generations. Moreover, material fabric seems be indispensable factor. parishioners’ experience appears crucial component late nineteenth early twentieth centuries.