In order to satisfy the "spiritual and psychological needs" of people who will become the first colonists on the Moon, it is proposed to build a "temple-observatory" at its South Pole.
The author of the project to build a temple on the moon was a graduate of the London College of Art, Spaniard Jorge Manes Rubio. People whose home the Moon will become will be cut off from civilization in a dark, cold and extremely inhospitable world, and the need for spiritual communication may become very urgent for them.
The temple will be called "Peak of Eternal Light" and it will be located at the South Pole of the Moon, on the Shackleton crater. It is this crater that is considered as an ideal place for the construction of a lunar base. Huge deposits of water ice have been discovered in the crater, which will be an invaluable resource for the colonists. High above the lunar base at the edge of the crater, the dome of the lunar temple will rise.
At the bottom of the crater, an eternal shadow reigns, but its edges are brightly illuminated by the Sun and people, having climbed the stepped stairs leading to the temple, will enter its dome where there will be enough space for meetings, prayers, communication, and in the center of the room there will be an altar in the form of a telescope with liquid mirror.
Parishioners of the lunar church will bring with them in the form of an offering a container with liquid metal and with its help they will fill the altar and perform the rite of observation of the Earth through this telescope.
The temple building is planned to be erected using 3D printing from local lunar soil.
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