The Sanctuary at St Francis Health Centre is a sacred space where you will find peace, stillness and silence, providing the opportunity for deep inner reflection. The design of the building is based on a profoundly mystical geometric configuration called the ‘Grace’. It is composed of an outer circle containing a square (with its corners touching the circle) and an inner circle inside the square.
The Sanctuary’s ‘Grace’ has been modified with a smaller inner circle, which provides the seating in the Sanctuary. The walls of the Sanctuary from the square. The inner circle contains an eight-pointed star, which is shown in the carpet design on the floor. The eight points of the star extend as invisible rays from the centre, which are marked as window openings in the four corners and walls.
The roof contains a pyramid with angles the same as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Made of clear glass, with its apex directly above the centre of the inner circle, light streams into the space. The walls are painted violet (a high spiritual vibration) and the carpet is a lighter tone.
The final key in the design is the Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Mean, or Section, where the Greek letter phi represents the value 1:1.6180 etc. This ratio underlies proportions in nature, and in ancient architecture. In the Sanctuary the proportion is reflected in the dimension of the square’s side to the height (floor to pyramid apex), 1:1:.618.