A short film (13min 12sec) which explores the place of Wat Preah Buddha Rangsey in South Philadelphia. Methodologically this film focuses on material culture and religion and seeks to situate the built places and constructed spaces, (architecture, windows, textiles, sculpture, and painting) as a central protagonist within the focus of religious studies. The film follows the production of particular religious spaces through the construction, rehabbing, and repurposing of buildings. Once an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue, a Lutheran Christian Church, and a paper box factory, currently the structures have been reconstructed into a beautiful Khmer (Cambodian) Theravada Buddhist Temple complex in the urban setting of South Philadelphia.
