Church architecture

allows for fantasy to cloud reality. Ghosts, haunted houses, darkness, and fiction are inherently Gothic. Books such as The House Next Door, by Anne Siddons, play with Gothic ideals especially in its depiction of architecture. In this novel, there are many references to the architecture and that although the structure in question is beautiful, it is also dark, fantastical, and ultimately…

The Dome of the Rock is a Byzantine design inspired building, completed in 691 CE that has stood for over 1300 years. The monument is the first piece of Islamic architecture funded by a Muslim ruler that was created as a work of art. It is an Islamic shrine located on a sacred stone called the Temple Mount, a large outcrop of bedrock in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been venerated as a holy site for over a thousand years and considered one of the most important religious sites in the world…

Intro: The history or Islamic ornamental design is a very rich and complex one. Islamic art, specifically ornamental art found on Islamic architecture, is symbolic of not only the aesthetic trends of Islamic culture but is reflective of the Quran and its poetic descriptions and symbolic stories. When specifically looking at buildings like the Alhambra, one can see that the Nasrid artists embellished the building in three specific ways: the carving of stylized foliage; the use of tiles to form…

The Dome of the Rock is a 7th century building located in the walled Old City of Jerusalem in the center of the Temple Mount. It is the first domed shrine to be built and is a masterpiece of Islamic architecture. It is the oldest Islamic building to have survived intact in its original form. The building is not only sacred but is also recognised for its beauty. It is gorgeously decorated both inside and outside (Grabar, 2006). The realm of Islam had spread widely with the Islamic conquest of…

Empire was a center for arts, architecture and religion. Under the leadership of The Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Byzantines stood still as the cornerstone of the Orthodox world. While many churches were built during the empire’s 1120-year life, but most of them vanished over time either getting destroyed or being converted. However, one of them, an old tiny church overshadowed by the mighty Hagia Sophia, stayed where it was despite the powers against it. Church of the Saint Mary of the…

his own church to have more power. Religion was…

awkward and part of the church family. As a new Methodist, I have found many Methodist churches (particularly contemporary ones) to be a good mix of the familial atmosphere that i loved about Pentecostal church and the church tradition that I 'm seeking at this point in my faith walk. For this reason, I wanted to visit a Catholic church. I reasoned that…

fear and darkness were represented in medieval times because the church was a major cultural factor. The School of Athens fresco and the last judgment relief, shows the huge shift from the “Dark Ages” into the “enlightenment” Apparent in both (past and the future) societies, the catholic church was known to be a “dominant political, religious and economic force”(Fiero,118). During the creation of the two art pieces, the catholic church was…

On October 30th, 2016 I attended Redeemer Lutheran church. I arrived there ten minutes early and picked a pew towards the back and started to take notes. The mass started around eight o’clock am and lasted approximately an hour. The service itself was similar to a Roman Catholic mass that I am use to. I was surprised that they were so similar because my thought process was since they are completely different religions than they must have completely different mass styles. Obviously after going I…

to graduate school to explore how best to physically implement computation and how best to pass on what I learn to others. As physical devices get pushed to their limits, new design paradigms have begun to emerge across the spectrum of hardware architectures. This spectrum spans from prominent software-programmable devices, such as many-core CPUs and modern GPUs, to hardware-programmable technologies such as FPGAs. I am fascinated with the design challenges inherent in these and other types of…