Religious Buildings

Kull bniedem għandu l-forom ta’ twemmin tiegħu u kull bniedem għandu dritt jemmen f’dak li jħoss. Bla dubju ta’ xejn ir-reliġjonijiet huma fost l-a...

Includes fold-out pages containing 360° photo images CD enclosed – A collection of European Sacred Hymns & Motets – The Collegium Musicum Choir...

Mindu tlesta fl-1869, dan iċ-ċimiterju laqa’ fih madwar 300,000 difna. Dawn jinkludu ħafna personalitajiet li b’mod jew b’ieħor sawru s-soċjetà kon...

Celebrating the 600-year presence of the Carmelite friars in Malta, the book explores the history of the foundations of Carmelite Priories througho...

St George’s Basilica is no ordinary church. It brings together artistic treasures and a unique ambiance conducive to both spirituality and creativi...

This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Cover...

The book Locus Fratrum is the first attempt at a systematic analysis of the architecture and building practice of the last major medieval monastic ...

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the ritu...

Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasBuilt to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New...

Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside – and sharing their beauty and unsung history across socia...

Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of...

Ritual and architecture have provided the abstract and the tangible foundations of group worship from the era of the first Christians to the presen...

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

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and commu...

The churches of the North East are among the most ancient and interesting in the country. Those at Hexham, Alnwick and Warkworth spring instantly t...

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book look...

In recent years, there has been a noticeable and enthusiastic increase of interest in Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines in Japan. The legends of ...

This work is the first systematic study of how monumental buildings were constructed in medieval Russia. It deals specifically with ecclesiastical...

In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking in...

This remarkable book is the crowning achievement of the great scholar of Hinduism, D. Dennis Hudson. Although Hudson died without completing it, th...

The author of the magisterial England's Thousand Best Churches turns his eye to England's cathedrals, with fascinating, personal - and often funny ...

First Published in 1986 The Architectural History of King's College Chapel provides a complete picture of how and why King’s College Chapel came to...

St Mark’s Church in Björkhagen, one of Stockholm’s southern districts, is one of Sigurd Lewerentz’s (1885-1975) key designs. But unlike Lewerentz’s...

Analyzing the ways in which ideas of heroic discourse and the socio-religious and political needs of the period moulded iconography, this book expl...

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...

This volume intends to foster a re-interpretation of the Nasrid architecture of the Alhambra in Granada and its post-Islamic appropriation and glob...

This is the first major book about Islamic stucco, and the central theme is the re-examination of the uses of stucco in architecture across the Isl...

A vital reference for everyone interested in Islamic inscriptions on buildings, objects and works of art. This beautifully illustrated book explain...

The fascinating variety of Scotland's church buildings is rarely appreciated. Many are hidden away in remote country areas, or in parts of towns an...

As you walk through a Thai temple, a host of unfamiliar objects, shapes and patterns tug at you from every direction. This handy and lucid guideboo...

A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa—a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, wh...

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness...

On the occasion of the forthcoming renovation of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, the book recounts the history of its construction, reconstru...

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...

Professor Sauerländer is the leading authority on Gothic sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papers collected here have been pub...

This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the...

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of ...

A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in t...

Beliefs in the afterlife dominated the images, literature and liturgy of medieval church and society. In particular, the concept of purgatory – a p...

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? These are worthy questions to a...