Buildings interact with, influence, and are influenced by other adjacent and nearby buildings and landscape features. Whether intentionally or not, complex spatial, architectural and experiential relationships were created when early churches were built adjacent to non-Christian religious buildings. The cathedral at Gerasa, in northern Jordan, was built adjacent to a Temple of Artemis complex and can only be satisfactorily understood by exploring both the architecture of each complex and the relationships that existed between them. This is achieved through architectural analysis in combination with a user experience-led method, focussing upon how users experienced each complex in light of the other and by considering the impact of civic and religious memory on user understanding. The comparative architectural experiences impacted user understanding of each complex and the institutions represented, while knowledge of the past was appropriated to create bridges between known non-Christian and less well-known Christian contexts and hierarchies.

建筑物与其他相邻和附近的建筑物和景观特征相互作用、影响并受其影响。无论有意与否，当早期教堂建在非基督教宗教建筑附近时，就创造了复杂的空间、建筑和体验关系。位于约旦北部 Gerasa 的大教堂建在阿尔忒弥斯神庙建筑群附近，只有通过探索每个建筑群的建筑以及它们之间存在的关系才能令人满意地理解。这是通过架构分析与以用户体验为主导的方法相结合来实现的，重点关注用户如何根据另一个综合体体验每个综合体，并考虑公民和宗教记忆对用户理解的影响。