Pretty looking church thing

So I’m at the University walking around feeling pretty good after taking a final - and I come across their beutiful church, or meditation center. The campus itself has gorgeous landscaping and water pieces - it’s great - every work building should be like that. But I’ve never gone inside the place as beautiful and inviting as it seems. Here’s what I encountered when I finally entered on the last week of class:

• a lot of windows let me see most of what I thought I saw from the outside
• there was only one way to get in (I tried to leave out a different door, but the hedges and flowers were surrounding me. I’m sure I looked crazy as I was debating whether or not to cut through the flowers, I couldn’t get out of there, it was weird.)
• there was no cross, or any symbols whatsoever
• there was no one inside.

 It was the University religion building, like a physical education building, but with no true purpose than organizing the religious club offices. I’ve heard of church without walls, but what’s a church without a cross? I can be at home, or in a parking lot, in a crowd at a converted grocery store it doesn’t matter, but if 2 or more are gathered in Christ’s name, He’s with me. The symbolism isn’t necessary. The building isn’t necessary. But it is an expression of respect - a visual statement that we honor and follow God and commit to worshipping Him as a group of believers. The church shows unity and should not show ambiguity for whom it represents. I would call it irreverent and disrespectful at the least; there should be no shame in whom I  worship. 

So if the church is the body of believers in Christ, is there a point in having a universal meditative/spiritual center with windows and flowers on the outside, and some pews for weddings…if its purpose isn’t to hold a body of believers in Christ? Why have a building at all if it’s for the unknown god. There is no glory there.