Templo da Humanidade glyph Origin 1891 to 1897
The Templo da Humanidade in the Gloria neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro was built between 1891 and 1896 and inaugurated on 1 January 1897, chosen deliberately as Humanity Day in the Positivist calendar. It was the first positivist temple built anywhere in the world, constructed according to indications laid down by Auguste Comte himself, and remains the headquarters of the Positivist Church of Brazil, an institution whose members were active in organizing the Brazilian republic. Its facade echoes the Pantheon in Paris, inscribed with the Positivist motto behind Brazil's own national flag: love as principle, order as base, progress as end.
Facts
Organisation
Category of StructurePositivist temple, the first built anywhere and the headquarters of the Positivist Church of Brazil 1 Matches the bespoke phrasing already used for its sibling Positivist temple, Chapelle de l'Humanite, Paris. Iconography
SymbolOne of the Positivist Church of Brazil's temples, its facade carrying the Positivist motto Ordem e Progresso, the same phrase later placed on the Brazilian flag. 2 Origins
Origin Period Status
Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 1 Connections
Associated With
Paris, Cities This source names Paris directly: "Its facade echoes the Pantheon in Paris, inscribed with the Positivist motto behind Brazil's own national flag: love as principle, order as base, progress as end."
Source Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential WritingsGertrud Lenzer (ed.)
Belongs to Tradition
Its own record calls it a Positivist temple, matching Religion of Humanity already carried by its sibling Positivist temples on file.
Source Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential WritingsGertrud Lenzer (ed.)
Related To
Sources
1. Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings
Gertrud Lenzer (ed.), Transaction Publishers, 1998on the Positivist temple form and the Rio de Janeiro temple
2. Religion of Humanity (Wikipedia)
Positivist Church of Brazil sectionQuote, Positivist Church of Brazil section
The national flag of Brazil bears the motto "Ordem e Progresso" ("Order and Progress"), inspired by Comte's motto of positivism
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