Religious

The buildings erected in the Deccan region of India belonged to a number of pre-Mughal kingdoms that reigned in the Deccan from the middle of the 14th century onwards. The monuments testify to a culture where local and imported ideas, vernacular and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170977Author Nikolaus PevsnerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

This book presents the first overview of Muslim architecture in Britain, from the earliest examples in the late 19th century, to mosques being built today. Key architectural stages are identified and explained alongside the social history of Muslim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906022006Author Simon WatneyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Snake River Press LtdPublisher Snake River Press Ltd

This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of eighteenth-century ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during...

For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu worldview at its deepest level and inspired the greatest architectural and artistic achievements in...

For nearly a thousand years, the Saxon settlers from the Rhine valley played a vital role in the history of Transylvania until their diaspora in the second half of the twentieth century. Fortresses of Faith focuses on their magnificent architectural...

Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this...

St Aidan of Lindisfarne established a monastery at ‘Mailros’ in the 7th century – a place of solitude and contemplation in the Border hills. Five centuries later, Cistercian monks settled nearby and built Melrose Abbey, inspired by the legacy of the...

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? In a county by county guide to the smallest gems of English ecclesiastical architecture, John Kinross provides the reader with...

As Buckfast Abbey prepares to celebrate its millennium in 2018, this new book chronicles the remarkable history of this famous English abbey, today both home to a self-sufficient community of Benedictine monks and a site that welcomes some half a million...

In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. As representations of King...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629091Author Alan K. LathropFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Within the last millennium France's Champagne region has ascended two stunning pinnacles of fame and fortune with a long, deep gorge between them. In this book the author traces the history and culture of its highly varied past to its remarkable present...

Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), America's most prolific Gothic Revival architect and an author of ghost...

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and one of his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed projects,...

Canada's first mosque, the Al Rashid mosque in Edmonton, was built in 1938. In the years since, as Canada's Muslim population has grown, close to two hundred mosques, Islamic centres, prayer spaces, and jamatkhanas have been built across the country. ...

Text in English and German. This book presents a selection from all Tesar's creative periods and an essay introduces the background to this art and its current positioning, which not least raises theoretical questions about the relationship between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816525898Author Gloria Fraser GiffordsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Explores the process of collaboration in the creation of an American architectural masterpiece; Since its dedication in 1877, Trinity Church on Copley Square in Boston has been widely regarded as one of the most important and successful monuments of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786218199040Author Regalado Trota JoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Rpd PublicationsPublisher Rpd PublicationsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816521197Author David BurckhalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Isfahan is a heavenly city of gardens, mosques and palaces for an open-minded architect. In addition to the artful dome constructions over the prayer halls of the larger mosques, the highpoint of Persian architecture is the multitude of garden complexes,...

Changes in the layout of the cathedral and its close traced over 600 years, using Norwich as a case-study. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award What explains the layout of the cathedral and its close? What ideas and beliefs shaped...

The Art of Orientation explores the mosque through 125 artefacts from across the Islamic world. It employs an original and contemporary approach by incorporating essays by leading Arab and international authors, which provide a fresh interpretation of...

Engineering a Cathedral offers professional engineers, architects and interested lay people a unique opportunity to study the construction of one of the world's finest buildings. Durham cathedral celebrates its 900th anniversary in 1993 and to mark the...

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity...

Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval...

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for architecture and history buffs, tourists, and churchgoers interested in decoding the styles and symbols of religious buildings. Every building...

A Gazetteer Guide to the churches and Commanderies of the Knights of St John as they were at the moment of Suppression in 1540.Book InformationISBN 9781912945139Author Michael HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mount Orleans PressPublisher Mount...

Explores the role of Islam in forming and transforming interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World from a longue dur e perspective Highlights the centrality of Muslim cultures in understanding interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean Explores...

The ancient churches and cathedrals of England's towns and countryside are among the glories of our national heritage, the church spire one of the quintessential features of the landscape. Yet how were our ancestors able to construct these often...

The Brady Street and Alderney Road cemeteries are among the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the UK, dating back to the arrival of the Jewish immigrants in the time of Oliver Cromwell. As the Jewish community expanded, by the middle of the nineteenth...

"Seldom does a collection of art history essays leave readers yearning for a second volume..."-Barbara Wisch, Renaissance Quarterly Roman church interiors throughout the Early Modern age were endowed with rich historical and visual significance. During...

The images in this volume are the result of the photo shoot carried out in the Sistine Chapel between December 2015 and January 2016. New technologies have made it possible to achieve spectacular results, ensuring a more faithful and accurate...

The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. These monuments, unique in the world, reflect a cultural legacy inherited from Byzantium and the Roman Empire...

Jedburgh Abbey is one of the most elegant examples of 12th-century architecture in Scotland. It was founded by King David I, both as an act of piety and to assert his claim to the Borders. The abbey was repeatedly ravaged over centuries of border...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946694082Author Michael HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Heritage of London Trust LtdPublisher Heritage of London Trust LtdWeight(grams) 1260g

For nearly a thousand years, the Saxon settlers from the Rhine valley played a vital role in the history of Transylvania until their diaspora in the second half of the twentieth century. Fortresses of Faith focuses on their magnificent architectural...

Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art: An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources;An introductory essay by the editor;Documents...