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Towards classification of sacral architecture

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2006
The paper presents the method of scientific investigation of sacral architecture in the frontier region of Lithuania with Byelorussia and Poland. It also reveals the achieved results and highlights guidelines for future research.
Rimantas Buivydas, Jūratė Jurevičienė   +1 more
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The spirit of modern sacral architecture

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2015
Sacral architecture, due to its special function, is able to tremendously influence the society. Being a phenomenon for ages, it has undergone many changes alike the church liturgy, which to some extent impacts the church architecture.
Karolina Zuba
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Innovations in sacral architecture: The resettlement churches of Emil Belluš [PDF]

Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 2023
The 20th century saw a great breakthrough in architectural innovation; however, this was less evident in sacred buildings. The Evangelical Church of A. C. was inherently innovative, which was also reflected in the architecture of its churches.
Ing. arch. Lívia Búliková
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Uniate Sacral Architecture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Synthesis of Confessional Architecture [PDF]

Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2021
The architectural legacy of the Unitarians in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania has received little attention from researchers to this day. This article presents an architectural synthesis of the Uniate and Order of Basilians that reflected the old ...
Buržinskas Žygimantas
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Medieval Sacral Architecture in Banská Štiavnica – Architectural Interpretation [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
Knowledge about the architectural–historical development of medieval sacral buildings in Banská Štiavnica has gained clearer contours in recent years thanks to many new findings from monument research and published studies that have been processed in the
Lýdia Budayová, Katarína Terao Vošková   +1 more
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Sacral Qualities of Form in Mosque Architecture

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1995
By the year 800 c.E., and within less than two centuries from the inception of Islam, a new religious and secular architecture materialized in a vast area: western Asia, all of North Africa, and southern Spain.
Salim A. Elwazani
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Ellipse and Oval in Baroque Sacral Architecture in Slovakia [PDF]

Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017
Oval, circular and elliptic forms appear in the architecture from the very beginning. The basic problem of the geometric analysis of the spaces with an elliptic or oval ground plan is a great sensitivity of the outcome calculations to the plan's ...
Grúňová Zuzana, Holešová Michaela
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Fragments of sacral architecture in the ramparts of medieval Novo Brdo [PDF]

Zograf, 2022
This paper offers the first overview of the appearance and origin of architectural decorations built into the ramparts of the fort at Novo Brdo. It considers parts of decorations that have a wide repertoire of tracery motifs in shallow relief ...
Bjelić Igor
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Spatial Narrative As Feature Of Singularity In Sacral Architecture

Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2014
The paper analyses architectural compositions of various religious complexes – historical and contemporary – apart from their stylistic features. The most prominent ensembles under analysis have one noticeably common feature – spatial narrative.
Gytis Oržikauskas
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The signs and symbolic markers of sacral orientation in Mosque architecture

ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2021
Mosques as a religious building for the Moslem Community have two orientations and they include the Qibla as the main and direction of the sky as the secondary.
Muhammad Rusdi Adiputra, Purnama Salura
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