Religious Buildings

WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens ...

The Drosten stone one of Scotlands premier monuments came to light during restoration work at St Vigeans Church, near Arbroath, in the 1870s. A r...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzos history, extending ...

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can e...

The widespead and numerous Romanesque churches in the northern half of Spain rival those of France for their distinctiveness and originality and fo...

Temples for a Modern God is one of the first major studies of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and...

The buildings erected in the Deccan region of India belonged to a number of pre-Mughal kingdoms that reigned in the Deccan from the middle of the 1...

Art photographs of strikingly beautiful and austere shrines of saints and pilgrimage sites erected by the Uyghurs (a mystic, pacifistic branch of I...

Following on from 100 Buildings 100 Years and 100 Houses 100 Years, this book illustrates and describes 100 churches and chapels built in the UK si...

British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx.1661 - 1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and European ...

Britains tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after a...

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the ...

Who is depicted in that stained glass window? What is the significance of those geometric figures? Why are there fierce-looking beasts carved amids...

Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales is the first comprehensive, illustrated guide to the religious houses of Wales from the twelfth to sixteenth ...

Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Inspired by the ill...

Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 641. A...

Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compend...

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? This companion volume to the au...

Argyll's beautiful, rugged and extensive coastline saw the birth of the nation and gave Christianity the first footing in Scotland. The Church then...

The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE, therefore came to represent for many a symb...

Through the centuries, the Scottish Borders have been witness to some of the most dramatic and violent events in UK history with monarchs often tus...

Buffeted by Baltic winds and the steely waves of the North Sea, the North-East of Scotland is a surprisingly rich and diverse region with fertile s...

Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but also acoustically and architecturally. Global P...