This work consists of a scale model in cardboard of every ‘Place of Worship’ listed in the 2004 edition of the Edinburgh Yellow Pages telephone directory. The models represent buildings in an area including Lothian, Fife and the Borders. The resulting work is a snapshot of Scotland through its places of religious meeting; churches, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, Salvation Army halls and temples. The buildings are displayed without regard for their real life location or religious connections. The artist was influenced by an essay by the nineteenth-century artist and writer John Ruskin called ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’. Ruskin stated that “It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration: not the gift but the giving”.