Religious Buildings

This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soer...

The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will be energized by this book. ...

Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they ...

This new and unusual Pocket Guide refers to more than 300 Welsh graves of the famous and not so famous. They are grouped in convenient geographical...

From the Moorish synagogue in small Texas town, to the New England meetinghouse nestled in the palm trees of Hawaii, this comprehensive historical ...

Even now, the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages overwhelm us by their imagination, technical daring and sheer scale. How could such structures be...

The Gothic Cathedral focuses on the interaction between design and the requirements of patrons, following the creative processes of architects by r...

Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and cautionary advice on building projects ...

Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between th...

This book explores Louis I. Kahn's approach to tradition as revealed in two of his important, unbuilt, projects. Focusing on Kahn's designs for the...

In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920–1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a carefu...

This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...

Read the Jewish Idea Daily's review here. In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all si...

A highly original architectural history of Solomon’s Temple and Islam’s Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the regio...

The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic fa...

Rosslyn Chapel Revealed offers the reader an increased understanding and respect for one of Europe's finest pre-Reformation buildings. Rosslyn Chap...

For 250 years chapels have been at the heart of Black country life - both social and religious. Poor social conditions in this heavily industrialis...

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? In a county by county guide to ...

A guide to Britain's churches, which talks about the richness and diversity of over 1500 years of Christian heritage. It also explains the importan...

Presents the story of Fairford's windows. This book studies the medieval stained glazing scheme in the context of the economic and religious life o...

Examines the people and processes which went into the construction of a great church. This involved the resources of the patron but also the skills...

Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms....

How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causes.

How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causes.