The Djamichoonatra - Gurdjieff Temple

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The nine-sided Djamichunatra (or Djameechoonatra) at Coombe Springs was designed and built by J. G. Bennett and his pupils, notably a dozen architects led by Robert Whiffen; the building was begun on 23 March 1956, completed on 29 October 1957, and demolished by 'developers' in 1966. For its inspiration see G. I. Gurdjieff "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" (RKP, 1950) p. 1160; for Bennett's vision of it see his "Witness" p. 323f and 348f, for further technical details see A.G. E. Blake "A History of the Institute for the Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences Ltd and the Influences upon it" (Daglingworth: privately circulated, 198 1) p. 5; for Frank Lloyd Wright's aesthetic criticism see Anthony Bright Paul "Stairway to Subud" (Coombe Springs Press, 1965) p. 116; and for its wanton destruction see Witness (rev. ed. 1975) p. 362.

Gurdjieff was buried at Avon, which has since become a Mecca of sorts, as Bennett on his Coombe Springs estate near Kingston, Surrey, erected in 1957 a curious nine-sided building designed to concentrate spiritual vibrations, called the Djamichunatra—from a place described in Chapter 46 of All and Everything where the soul receives "second being-food"—and laid out so that the central axis pointed to Fontainebleau.

This artificially produced phenomenon was an announcement to the
passengers that it was time to assemble in the common what is called
"djameechoonatra," a sort of "monastic refectory" in which the second beingfood
was collectively taken. (in Beelzebub end of chapter 45)

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