Religious Buildings

In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than bei...

Nonconformist has long been used as a description of Protestant Christians in England and Wales who were not part of the Church of England. Among t...

The British Archaeological Association Conference held at Peterborough in 2015 provided a welcome opportunity for a new analysis of the cathedrals ...

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The Buddhist monument of Borobudur was built in the eighth and ninth centuries on the island of Java. It is one of the most famous and studied reli...

A radical reassessment of the role of movement, emotion, and the viewing experience in Gothic sculpture Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe dazzle...

The mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is richly illustrat...

A Photographic Pilgrimage to the Temples of Modernism Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war...

Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagog...

Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches...

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

This book showcases the most recent work of 29 international architects, both well-known and young, emerging talents, together with their innovativ...

Green-Wood, founded in 1838, was a leader in the Rural Cemetery movement in America. Its 478 acres encompass magnificent grounds, grand architectur...

Religion in Britain after the Reformation was remarkably unstable and places of worship were the focus of dispute and regular change. This book i...

Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader'...

Considerable work has been expended by academics and historians on the history of the great abbeys and monasteries that covered the English landsca...

Thicket Priory was founded before 1180, possibly as early as 1162, and survived until it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. The story of this pri...

Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual bene...

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Gang...