The general aim of this project is to carry out an investigation into the architecture of terreiros in contemporary times, based on their historical relationship with echoes of Afro-Brazilian subjectivity that mark the constructive, formal and typological characteristics of these sacred spaces. The central hypothesis of the research is to understand that the condition of the contemporary architecture of African-origin cult terreiros, in their ways of using space, holds traces that indicate a habitability of traditions, ancestry, quilombismo, etc. The historical relationships, adaptations and strategies of a people who were enslaved and subjected to a new culture of domination generated alternatives of resistance to maintain their faith and religious practices. Thus, the architecture of contemporary terreiros seems to bear many traces of these strategies of resistance and adaptability in their uses and constructive adaptations.