Religious Buildings

The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. The...

The Saxons put the county of Bedfordshire on the map, and signs of the earliest churches from this period remain today. Church building continued a...

The county of Buckinghamshire has a rich and varied past which is reflected in its historic churches. In Churches of Buckinghamshire, author Eddie ...

In the past decade, cathedrals have blossomed as signs of growth for the Anglican Church in England and Wales. They have opened their doors to grow...

Tracing its origins and development, Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place...

A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us t...

Architecture, Theology, and Ethics: Making Architectural Design More Just argues that architecture, design, and creativity are theological-ethical ...

The churches of Rome constitute what is probably the most important assemblage of art and architecture in the Western world. This book is a compreh...

Salisbury Cathedral (German)

Over the years, R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for the insider tours of Paris that he gives to students abroad. Long sought after by traveller...

The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster   Englands sixty-two Anglican an...

In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the...

As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing wa...

Winner of the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian StudiesHow imperial ideology is given shape in built space...

Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrate...

Apocalypse reproduces the Apocalypse Cycle of the Great East Window of York Minster in its entirety and in full colour for the very first time. Stu...

A vital collection of interdisciplinary essays that illuminates the significance of Marian shrines and promises to teach scholars how to read them ...

Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing t...

The county of Gloucestershire has a rich and varied past which is reflected in its historic churches. The landscape is dominated by two principal f...

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucaults analysis Of Other Spaces and the ideological conflicts which ...

'[a] gem of a book' SpectatorChurches and cathedrals were originally built to be read. They are alive with images and symbols. But today few people...

The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated ...

The reports of the surveyors of Westminster Abbey in the nineteenth century provide a treasure trove of information on this most important building...