French sociologist Emile Durkeheim claimed that religion is godmother of every culture (Emile Durkheim 1858-1917, no date). The religion history went together with human race. Religion and human, human and religion, and human and culture had a mutual relationship with each other. This kind of relationship had an influence not only on human’s daily life but also on the architecture. They started and developed together, giving a mutual influence on each other. Most of the biggest architectures from ancient period including pyramid and Parthenon, or the other temples from Asia were religious ones and they are explicit evidence of religion on architecture. Regarding this, we can easily reach the conclusion that religion and architecture had a
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Temples were usually thought to be the house of god, which is the god’s real or formal house. As they were god’s house they thought that these temples should be more ostentatious and unique from other architectures. This tendency led to a development of new architectural formats. For example, the Early Christian architecural format was considered to be a transitional format of Ancient and medieval architecture was a format (mahru, 2009). They can be considered to be a only kind of a architectural form which leaded the western architectural history. It’s development was based on the religious belief toward the god, and it didn’t only influenced the architectures of that period but also the later formats of all the other medieval buildings in the …show more content…
This resulted in the development of own formats of religious buildings and better technology to build them. For instance, technology to build a building with a dome structure was made in need to build a cathedral with a dome structure. What is more, the buttress, which was usually seen on the Gothic buildings was a technical solution for building a bigger architectures (Cox, 2001).Adding to this, to symbolize the eternity of the god, the building should have been imperishable. It made the religious architectures to be consisted of better ingredients to last more days. So the fact that most of ancient buildings lasting today are religious ones is not just a coincidence but a result of co-relationship between religion and architecture. Think about ancient architectures (Science, Engineering, and Technology, no date). The ones which come into mind, which were not perished to nowadays are mostly religious ones such as pyramids and acropolises. Altogether, the religion played an important role in the manifestation of architectural formats, influenced on the development of new technology and These examples are explicit evidence that religion and architecture had co influence on both’s
Temples were usually thought to be the house of god, which is the god’s real or formal house. As they were god’s house they thought that these temples should be more ostentatious and unique from other architectures. This tendency led to a development of new architectural formats. For example, the Early Christian architecural format was considered to be a transitional format of Ancient and medieval architecture was a format (mahru, 2009). They can be considered to be a only kind of a architectural form which leaded the western architectural history. It’s development was based on the religious belief toward the god, and it didn’t only influenced the architectures of that period but also the later formats of all the other medieval buildings in the …show more content…
This resulted in the development of own formats of religious buildings and better technology to build them. For instance, technology to build a building with a dome structure was made in need to build a cathedral with a dome structure. What is more, the buttress, which was usually seen on the Gothic buildings was a technical solution for building a bigger architectures (Cox, 2001).Adding to this, to symbolize the eternity of the god, the building should have been imperishable. It made the religious architectures to be consisted of better ingredients to last more days. So the fact that most of ancient buildings lasting today are religious ones is not just a coincidence but a result of co-relationship between religion and architecture. Think about ancient architectures (Science, Engineering, and Technology, no date). The ones which come into mind, which were not perished to nowadays are mostly religious ones such as pyramids and acropolises. Altogether, the religion played an important role in the manifestation of architectural formats, influenced on the development of new technology and These examples are explicit evidence that religion and architecture had co influence on both’s