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The Role and Meaning of Religious Architecture in the Umayyad State: Secondary Mosques
Arts, 2018 Historiography and archaeological research have traditionally defined mosques mainly as religious spaces or places to pray, without further specifications.
Carmen González Gutiérrez
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The Topography of the Sacred. Rovigo: Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
In_Bo, 2021 Published in 1704, the suggestive view by Pierre Mortier of the small city of Rovigo on the border between the Papal States and the Republic of Venice shows the ordinary appearance of a centuries old rural-urban plain in the Po Basin as a crystallised ...
Andreina Milan
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
, 2014 In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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An Analysis of Christopher Alexander's Understanding of Religious Architecture through the Study of 'Face of God' from the Fourth Volume of His Nature of Order [PDF]
صفه, 2023 Looking at the history of architectural theories, and with reference to the opinions of thinkers, one can see architecture and rhetoric as mutually related throughout history.
Seyedeh Mahsa Bagheri +2 more
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
, 2015 This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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, 2020 Since their successful conquest of Egypt in 969 AD/358 AH, the Fatimids had realized the extreme intricacies that they will eventually encounter in turning Egypt to a secured Shῑʿῑ base.
Ahmad Hussein
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La capilla de la nación florentina en Sevilla (1588-1765)
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2023 The large community of Tuscan merchants that had settled in Seville between the 16th and 17th centuries erected a place of common social representation: the chapel of the Florentine nation.
Rafael Japón
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Le temple-mémorial de Château-Thierry : approche monographique
In Situ, 2005 The American memorial church of Château-Thierry, dedicated in 1924 has been built by two architects, Paul-Philippe Cret and Achille-Henri Chauquet. The church is adorned by a stained glass church window showing La Fayette welcoming Pershing and by some ...
Aline Magnien
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The Role of Light In The Architecture of Religious Buildings
Devotion Journal of Community Service, 2023 Light is one of the important factors in human life. Lighting especially in houses of worship is considered a very important part for symbolic and spiritual reasons. Light is the main focus in architecture, both in Islamic and Gothic architecture.
Iskandar Iskandar +4 more
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Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2023 This article engages with the role of sacred architecture as an embodiment of the conflicts, within a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority group, determined by the dispute upon religious hegemony.
Ayesha Qurrat ul Ain
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