cuatro postas de capilla

English translation: four open-air chapels

17:59 Jan 28, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Religion
Spanish term or phrase: cuatro postas de capilla
This is from an interview with an Argentine contemporary artist talking about Carnival:

JL: Pero la misma religión es la que da permiso al carnaval. Viene de ahí, de esa relación con la capilla abierta. Sobre todo en Latinoamérica. ¿Cómo atraen adeptos? Con capilla abierta, con las cuatro postas afuera, en una especie de plaza, en donde los hacen cantar. Y los dejan cantar lo que quieran.

The four posts? Seems like a specific reference to church architecture...
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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 20:20
English translation:four open-air chapels
Explanation:
Assuming the source text is referencing "capillas posas", as in the discussion and reference comments (which I believe it is), I think you could translate "Con capilla abierta, con las cuatro postas afuera..."
As
"With an outdoor temple, with (its) four open-air chapels..." (so as not to repeat "chapel" so often).
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Margaret Ikawa
Spain
Local time: 01:20
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4 +1four open-air chapels
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cuatro postas afuera
four open-air chapels


Explanation:
Assuming the source text is referencing "capillas posas", as in the discussion and reference comments (which I believe it is), I think you could translate "Con capilla abierta, con las cuatro postas afuera..."
As
"With an outdoor temple, with (its) four open-air chapels..." (so as not to repeat "chapel" so often).

Margaret Ikawa
Spain
Local time: 01:20
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Maybe "church with four open-sided chapels". I wouldn't say "temple" for a Catholic church, and they're arguably not quite open-air if they have roofs.
58 mins
  -> Thanks, Phil. I think the technical/architectural aspects are less important than the idea of preaching, singing and communing with God out in the open, since the author is linking this to the carnival.
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Reference information:
https://www.glosarioarquitectonico.com/glossary/capilla-posa...
Glosario ilustrado de arte arquitectónico
capilla posa
Edificio de modestas proporciones y planta cuadrada, por lo común abovedado y abierto al menos por dos lados, situado en los ángulos o extremos de los grandes atrios cuadrangulares de las iglesias construidas en el Nuevo Mundo hispano —especialmente en el antiguo virreinato de Nueva España (que atesora las mejores y el mayor número de capillas posas), en la extinta capitanía general de Guatemala y en el primitivo virreinato de Perú— y también, pero en menor medida, en las iglesias de Filipinas, con la finalidad de hacer en dichas capillas una pausa o un descanso (posa deriva de “posar”) durante las procesiones con el Santísimo o con el féretro del difunto, momento que el clero oficiante aprovechaba antiguamente para exhortar a los fieles o celebrar allí mismo algún rito alusivo al acto.

Cannundrums: Church and Convent of San Gabriel - Cholula
cannundrum.blogspot.com/.../church-and-convent-of-san-gabriel....
9 abr. 2018 - A capilla posa, or corner chapel, is straight ahead and attached to the wall. The main chapel is to the left. The front is yellow, but the sides are ...

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https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=3LVQoGVBFToC&pg=PA67&lp...
***Posa: Or more exactly, capilla posa: A processional oratory (rarely or never a chapel at each of the corners of some sixteenth-century Mexican monastic atriums (fig. 1).****


Posa Chapel - Architecture of Colonial Mexico
www.mexicanarchitecture.org/glossary/index.php?detail=87
A processional chapel. In colonial Mexico monasteries had four posas, one in each corner of the ATRIUM. Religious processions proceeded counter-clockwise ...
POSA CHAPEL
A ***processional chapel. In colonial Mexico monasteries had four posas, one in each corner of the ATRIUM***. Religious processions proceeded counter-clockwise around the atrium pausing at each of the posas.

Style as Substance - Faith & Form
https://faithandform.com/feature/style-as-substance/
What does the Thomas Aquinas College chapel mean? .... polygonal, flanking pavilions inspired by ***posas (processional chapels found in Mexican architecture).**
The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural ...

https://books.google.com.jm/books?isbn=0520295390 - Traducir esta página
Steven W. Hackel - 2018 - ‎History
Capillas posas (processional chapels) are at the corners of the atrium. Usually, an open chapel, which in combination with the atrium space was used for liturgy ...

Hope this helps.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard
1 hr
  -> Thank you.
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