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Space, Architecture, and American Religious Diversity

2017
Religions are fundamentally spatial, as they require space in which to assemble, to engage in ritual practices, and to form community. Every religious group that has existed in the United States has made a spatial imprint on the country, and that spatiality—that physical character—is also a constitutive component of religious experience.
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Architecture and Mathematics in Early Modern Religious Orders [PDF]

, 2014
For most of us, a familiar image from Raphael’s School of Athens serves to illustrate our intuitive notions about the links between early modern architecture and mathematics. The artist’s portrait of the great Renaissance architect Bramante as the geometer Euclid recalls the medieval traditions of Gothic architects and master masons using geometry ...
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Architectural Expression and Ways of Being Religious

2014
Abstract This article examines the architectural traditions of the world’s religions, with particular emphasis on synagogues, churches, mosques, and Hindu and Buddhist temples. Using a comparative approach, it first describes common and distinguishing features of religious architecture.
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Dimensions and Proportions in Egypt’s Byzantine Religious Architecture

Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, 2020
In the study of Egypt’s Byzantine religious architecture, modern scholarship has been focusing essentially on establishing the typology of plans and their relative chronology. Church building activity has also been studied by using the written sources complimented by the archaeological evidence.
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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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Religious Architecture

A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art, 2018
Jean M. Evans
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Jewish Religious Architecture

, 2019

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Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900–500 BC

, 2017
P. Lulof
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Religious Architecture in Quito

The Americas, 1946
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The Stūpa: Its Religious, Historical and Architectural Significance

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1982
Ernest Bender, Anna L. Dallapiccola
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