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Religious Architecture

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture, 2021
Abstract This chapter provides a review of major developments in Byzantine religious architecture. During the long period of Byzantine history, ecclesiastical buildings manifested the highest societal aspirations both by their cultural importance and by their aesthetic qualities.
M. Mihaljević
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Merovingian Religious Architecture

2020
For nearly 270 years, between the end of the Roman Empire and the advent of the Carolingian dynasty, the Merovingian territories experienced an intense flowering of religious construction, which recent archaeology has documented with increasing detail.
P. Chevalier
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Jewish Religious Architecture

2019
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Constructing a Semantic System of Facade Elements for Religious Architecture from a Regional Perspective: A Case Study of Jingzhou

Buildings
The application of semantics in facade elements mainly involves the association between architectural elements and their cultural, historical, or functional significance. By analyzing the shape, layout, and decoration of various elements (such as windows,
Guangyuan Wang, Weihao Huang, Qifan Xu
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Temple Architecture and Religious Anthropology

The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2023
This article substantiates the possibility of using the material of temple architecture in studies of religious perceptions of man. In studying the religious teachings of man, we rely on the religious anthropology of K. I. Nikonov. We also used the methodology of L. Jones's "hermeneutics of sacred architecture" and A.
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"DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF HAUSA HOUSE FORM"

Social Science Research Network
Traditional buildings across Nigeria’s geographical zones are known to have demonstrated a thorough response to the climate, local technology and socio-economic milieu in which they evolved.
O. P. Agboola, M. S. Zango
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Marcel Breuer: On Religious Architecture

Art Journal, 1979
From 1961–68, the St. Francis de Sales Church was constructed in Muskegon, Michigan. This expressive and technologically daring structure was designed by Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard using a revolutionary new design concept.The facade of the church proper is a trapezoid, banner-like shape.
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Native American Religious Art and Architecture

2022
The rich intertwining of art, architecture, and religion in Native North American worldviews represents an expansive field of exploration that cumulatively addresses patterns of generational continuity, a sense of place, and the continued vitality of ceremonial and oral traditions for the more than 600 recognized tribes of North America.
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China: Religious architecture

2023
Jonathan M. Bloom, Petra Klose, Bent L. Pedersen, Henrik H. Sørensen, Tan Tanaka   +4 more
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Church architecture and religious art

2001
The architecture of two great ecclesiastical monuments of western Christendom can be seen as exemplifying the historicising trend in nineteenth-century art. The first, the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, rebuilt from the 1830s onwards, is an expensively confident expression of the last fling of neo-Classicism.
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