Architecture: religious buildings

Este libro presenta veinticuatro espacios para el culto realizados en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI.

The book presents the results of research carried out in recent years on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India.

El valle de ARAUCO es una zona conocida como VALLE DE LOS OLIVOS haciendo alusión a su gran contenido místico.

Step into the golden age of ancient Egypt, where ambition, innovation, and divine authority converged to create one of humanity's most enduring wonders: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Wenn sich Kirchen leeren, stellt sich früher oder später die Frage, wie mit den Gebäuden künftig umzugehen ist.

The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape explores Hinduism as it was practised in temples across the Indian subcontinent throughout history, highlighting the temple's significance as a marker of cultural identity.

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto''s Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

Wie wollen wir wohnen?

Wie (ehemalige) Sakralbauten im ländlichen Raum neu und partizipativ erschlossen sowie vermittelt werden können, zeigen die Beiträge des Bandes.

Lancashire is a county of contrasts, with heavily industrialised and urbanised areas, remote mountain and moorland and an extensive coastline.

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

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

The first three centuries of Christianity are increasingly seen in modern scholarship as sites of complexity.

The first three centuries of Christianity are increasingly seen in modern scholarship as sites of complexity.

Cornish churches are not simple structures that nestle into the landscape, but complex and little-understood buildings, with many never being completed.

This two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies.

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture.

Suffolk boasts by far the greatest number of Domesday churches of any county surveyed by William the Conqueror in 1086.

Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county.

How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies The Archaeology of Protestant Landscapes focuses on three religious institutions in the US South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: St.

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete.

Meet Doorkins, the smallest yet most recognisable member of the Cathedral.

Edinburgh was founded as a royal burgh by David I in the early twelfth century, though there had been a settlement on what became Castle Rock for centuries before that.

Cambridgeshire is a large and diverse county, and this is reflected in its churches.

The county of Cheshire has a rich and varied past which is reflected in its historic churches.

The story of St Peter's begins in the 1st century CE with the Hippodrome of Nero, one of two places where the Apostle Peter may have been crucified.

The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images.

Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity.

Noch wird in der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Islam unterschieden zwischen unscheinbaren "Hinterhofmoscheen" und den sichtbaren "Moscheeneubauten".

Das Neujungfrauenkloster in Moskau, auch bekannt als Nowodewitschi-Kloster, ist ein faszinierendes Zeugnis russischer Geschichte, Kultur und Spiritualität.

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions.

Sussex runs in an arc along the south coast of England.

The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory.

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto''s Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

El Monasterio Benedictino de la Santisima Trinidad de Las Condes (Monumento Historico), cuya iglesia es obra de Gabriel Guarda O.

How big was the ancient city of Ayodhya?

Architecture of the California Missions by Kurt Baer, with photographs by Hugo Rudinger, offers a deep dive into the architectural legacy of California's historic missions.

Isis Unveiled H.

The Ball and the Cross G.

The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen - First performed in 1892, this psychological drama is one of the great Norwegian playwright's most symbolic and lyrical works.

Glocken sind nicht nur Teil unserer Kulturgeschichte, sie wurden auch immer wieder Opfer von Kriegen und Verwüstungen.

Bis heute betrachtet die kunsthistorische Forschung den Kirchenbau der Moderne weitgehend unter liturgeschichtlichen Aspekten.

Verehrten die Rittermönche des Templerordens ein Idol?

Wunderwerk Stift Stams in all seiner Vielfalt - präsentiert von Michael Forcher.

Das Buch präsentiert eine Auswahl historischer Stätten, die die Erinnerungskultur methodistischen Glaubens und Handelns über fast 200 Jahre seit dem frühen 19.