A church, also called a church building or church house, is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities. The cited article says the earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 and 256 AD, and that the word church is sometimes used erroneously to refer to the buildings of other religions, such as mosques and synagogues. It adds that church is also used to describe a body or assembly of Christian believers, while the Church may be used for the worldwide Christian religious community as a whole, and that in traditional Christian architecture the plan view of a church often forms a Christian cross. Buildings recorded in the atlas as churches are grouped under this concept.
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A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.
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A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.
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John Scott was approached to design the Futuna Retreat Chapel.
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is a church building in Kiruna, Sweden
View the Source Durham Street Methodist Church (Wikipedia)
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The Durham Street Methodist Church was a former heritage-listed Methodist church
View the Source Janja Mihailovic (Wikipedia)
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the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Topcider, built between 1832 and 1834
View the Source Nikola Dordevic (architect) (Wikipedia)
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the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Topcider, built between 1832 and 1834
View the Source Richard Upjohn (Wikipedia)
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became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches
View the Source Baroque architecture (Wikipedia)
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It reached its peak in the High Baroque (1625-1675), when it was used in churches and palaces in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Bavaria and Austria.
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The Normans introduced large numbers of castles, and at the same time monasteries, churches and cathedrals, in a style characterised by rounded arches and heavy proportions compared to other regional variations of the style.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ottonian architecture
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Ottonian architecture is an architectural style which evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great, essentially surviving in churches.
View the Source Cistercian architecture (Wikipedia)
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Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order.
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The greatest achievement of Armenian architecture is generally agreed to be its medieval churches and seventh century churches, though there are different opinions precisely in which respects.
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Coptic churches range from great cathedrals such as Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to the smallest churches in rural villages.
View the Source American Colonial Architecture (Wikipedia)
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These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from about 1600 through the 19th century.
View the Source Cosmatesque (Wikipedia)
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It was used most extensively for the decoration of church floors, but was also used to decorate church walls, pulpits, and bishop's thrones.
View the Source Southern French Gothic (Wikipedia)
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As a result, church buildings typically present features drawn from military architecture.
View the Source Getty Vocabularies (Art and Architecture Thesaurus): AAT concept record: Portuguese Colonial
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In architecture the style is typically seen in fortresses and churches.
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Styles incorporated more wood and rounder structures in commoner's architecture in the center of the country and the south, and these stylistic influencies were manifested in the slow construction of churches and monasteries.
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The architecture style that dominated in this time blended Slavic and Byzantine styles, with predominant churches built in brick and stone with Byzantine art forms, initially built by imported Greek and Byzantine masters but adopted by local craftsmen and slightly modified.
View the Source Portuguese Romanesque architecture (Wikipedia)
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The first Romanesque churches in the North were simple constructions, consisting of a nave with a timber roof and a rectangular apse.
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Celebrating the newly maritime power, it manifested itself in architecture (churches, monasteries, palaces, castles) and extended into other arts such as sculpture, painting, works of art made of precious metals, faience and furniture.
View the Source Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna (Wikipedia)
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Santa Maria dei Servi is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bologna, Italy.
View the Source Bologna Welcome: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi (Bologna Welcome)
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Built thanks to the will of father Andrea Manfredi da Faenza and master Antonio di Vincenzo
View the Source Augustus Pugin (Wikipedia)
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Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia.
View the Source Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (Wikipedia)
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His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome.
View the Source Sacré-Cœur, Paris (Wikipedia)
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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur) or simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur, pronounced [sakre kœr]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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