Positivist Temple of Porto Alegre

This Atlas Obscura entry on the Positivist Temple of Porto Alegre documents a real and still-operating site, one of the last active temples of Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, built in the early twentieth century and retaining church-like features, a pulpit and a pipe organ, adapted to positivist rather than Christian liturgy. Atlas Obscura is a crowd-curated travel and curiosities site rather than an academic publication, useful for orienting basic facts about a site's existence, appearance and visiting practicalities, generally reliable for that descriptive purpose since its entries are checked against contributor and editorial review. For the finer intellectual history of Comtean positivism as a religious movement and its specifically Brazilian reception, dedicated scholarship on positivism in Latin America is the stronger source.