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Discussion: Christian Ecclesiastical Architecture – Developments from the 1920s to the Present Day
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, church building was largely rooted in historicism. At the same time, a trend emerged in Eu...
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Cistercian Monastery in Novy Dvur –an Expression of Restraint
In 1991, ten young men left what was then Czechoslovakia to follow their religious convictions and enter the Cistercian Abbey of Sept-Fons in Burgundy...
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Religious Diversity – Diversity of Built Forms
For the first 300 years of its history, Christianity was an underground religion that had no expression in building. When Emperor Constantine supporte...
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Buddhist Temple in Saijo
Some 250 years ago, the Komyo-Ji Temple complex was erected in the coastal town of Saijo, Japan, by the Jodo sect. In contrast to other Buddhist sects...
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Synagogue in Dresden
In theory, ten Jewish men gathered beneath a roof with a Torah shrine and a bimah (a raise reading place) suffice to define a synagogue. Derived from ...
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Private Chapel in Douro
Situated in the north of Portugal, the estate originally consisted of an extensive tract of land that was used for agriculture and forestry. Today, th...
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