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The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, with columns uniquely on the front and only one side, is unparalleled in the Greek world. Excavations of the...

The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasures-now with magnificent new color photos, new illustrations, and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious life Like the medieval English cathedrals that inspired it, the Princeton University...

The book documents the surviving vernacular mosques of Cochin -- a jewel of the trading culture of the Malabar Coast of Kerala, and where historic patterns of an urban trading culture remain visible in the buildings and layout of the city. Sited in...

'Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion' is the first volume to explore the vast assortment of church decorations and memorials produced by Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) and the Tiffany Studios. For over 50 years Tiffany oversaw the production and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474461009Author Emily NeumeierFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Originally published in 1947, this book examines the regional styles of architecture which developed inside England itself, particularly during the later medieval period. It discusses the causes and locations of these regional variations. In explaining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389701487Author A B CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 195g

Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirror image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufic, naskh, and...

Bar Locks and Early Church Security in the British Isles examines the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure or defensible from their earliest times until the later medieval period. In particular it examines the phenomenon of...

In recent decades semiotics has succeeded in establishing itself as a discipline with international recognition. As a discipline specifically devoted to the study of signs and sign systems, it is relevant to the discipline of theology, working as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788883340413Author Serena RomanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Viella EditricePublisher Viella EditriceWeight(grams) 658g

How does spirituality enter the education of an architect? Should it? What do we mean by 'spirituality' in the first place? Isn't architectural education a training ground for professional practice and, therefore, technically and secularly oriented? Is...

This first volume of the final publication of the results of the Belgian Mission to Shanhur concerns the decoration of the inner rooms of the temple, and most notably of the sanctuary (built in the time of Augustus) and the wabet (decorated under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716530732Author Brendan GrimesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700176688Author Tsering GyalboFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496015413Author Anton SchweizerFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 1315g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375493Author Ms Marie TannerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and cautionary advice on building projects for churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and spaces for religious education. * Covers issues such as...

On the occasion of the forthcoming renovation of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, the book recounts the history of its construction, reconstruction and renovation in accordance with the respective social currents. In addition, the role of the...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/english) The realization is gradually dawning in Europe that many immigrants from Muslim countries are here to stay and are seeking to be naturalized- and therefore have the right to...

The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes representing the culmination of years of study by Professor Fred Cooper of the University of Minnesota and other scholars throughout...

The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the 5th-century B.C. Mint and the foundations of the Roman Nymphaeum, is...

Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted, Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home for 300 years. Their meetinghouses silently embody their religious traditions, and yet few outsiders have seen the...

Discover Savannah's historic churches through 136 color images. With engaging stories about the grand buildings and religious communities that meet in them, this pictorial guide tells of tragedy overcome and victories celebrated. Many places of worship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513267708Author Henry AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

In 1552, St. Francis Xavier died on the island of Sancian without setting foot on mainland China. Since then, this image of Francis Xavier on Sancian has been enshrined in Western memory, and many missionaries, merchants and adventurers have tried to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338126Author John HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

From Viking boxes to medieval manuscripts, mummified animals to elaborate stone carvings, Christ Church Cathedral has been the repository for an astonishing array of objects over the centuries, connecting us to the cathedral's past in a direct and...

The Tur 'Abdin is a mountainous region in the south-east of modern Turkey, and is architecturally one of the most interesting areas for the study of early Christian architecture. In two journeys into the Tur 'Abdin early in this century, Gertrude Bell...

Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in existence. National cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of parliament, backdrop to the funeral of Diana,...

In America between 1946 and 1953, the German-Jewish architect Eric Mendelsohn planned seven synagogues, of which four were built, all in the Midwest. In this book, photographer Michael Palmer has recorded in exquisite detail Mendelsohn's four built...

A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion.In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268207182Author Margaret GrubiakFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)...

The German state of Thuringia has 2,000 church buildings, of which 500 stand vacant, reflecting a general decline in European church membership. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, 500 Churches, 500 Ideas presents proposals for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865654044Author Alice Cooney FrelinghuysenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Vendome PressPublisher Vendome PressWeight(grams) 235g

The book presents the results of research carried out in recent years on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. The material gathered by the authors and the preliminary analysis based on it led to the creation of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739845070Author Colin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CP PressPublisher CP PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 10mm

The Chapels of Notre Dame celebrates the university's unique identity as a Catholic academic community where faith is treasured and diverse traditions shared and respected. This stunning large-format collection of over two hundred full-color photographs...

"[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple.... This work is not just art historical but embraces... religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." -Catherine B. Asher "[A]dvances our knowledge...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in SyriaBook InformationISBN 9781474446334Author Stephennie MulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher...