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	Publisher: Shubhi Publications, Gurgaon
	Author Ernest H. Short
	Language: English
	Pages: 338
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9.5x6.5 inch
	Weight 890 gm
	Edition: 2025
	HBQ971

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About the Book The History of Religious Architecture is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of architecture, religion, or cultural studies. With its detailed analysis and engaging writing style, the book provides a fascinating glimpse into the rich and complex world of religious architecture. 1925. first God's house, ancient Egypt; pyramid temples, Maya of Central America, Babylonia; legacy of Greece, the architecture of Paganism; Jewish faith and Roman organization; coming of Christianity; churches of eastern Christendom, Byzantium; art of ancient India and China; islands of the North, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic churches; architecture of Islam; Romanesque architecture in Italy, France and Germany; structure in architecture, French Gothic; Norman architecture in England; English Gothic; German and Spanish Gothic, Russian House of God; Italian city states; papacy and the art fund; post-reformation architecture, France and England; religious architecture in the 19th century.

Acknowledgements I am indebted to Mrs. Hugh Spencer for photographs of the Cairo mosques and several Far Eastern temples, and to Dr. Arthur Bodington, of Winchester, for Italian and French pictures. I have also to thank Mr. S. Smith for permission to draw upon his unrivalled collection illustrating Lincoln Cathedral. Colonel Shakespear kindly provided the pictures of primitive shrines. The British Museum, especially Mr. T. A. Joyce of the Ethnological Department, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, particularly Mr. A. J. D. Campbell of the Indian Section, have been most helpful, and I have to acknowledge the generous aid of the India Office Library in illustrating the Buddhist and Hindu chapter. Mr. Brewer's drawing of Old St. Paul's is reproduced by kind permission of "The Builder." My thanks are due to Mr. W. F. Mansell, of Teddington, for continual help in securing foreign and American photo-graphs; several American objects are reproduced by per-mission of the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and Dr. Ralph Adams Cram generously provided the drawing of St. John's the Divine, New York. Lastly, I thank Mr. Roland Short, of Westminster School, for his illustrative diagrams and plans.

Introduction "I find I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral; a thing as single and spacious as a statue at first sight and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail."

R. L. STEVENSON. Stevenson's spirited suggestion of adventure in each cathedral and minster church has an application far beyond the Christian House of God. Any building which serves as a symbol of the immanence of the All-Good in nature and humanity affords the same lively variety of interest. There are forms of art which are the possession, as they were the creation, of a few craftsmen and a limited number of instructed aesthetes. Not so the House of God. A shrine, a temple or a church, just because it is a place for communal worship, is part of the great picture-book of humanity. If we are to enjoy and understand, we must search with the uncritical joy of children, not for some new aesthetic shiver, but for thoughts and emotions which testify alike to the beauty and to the goodness of human life. We must know the faith and thought of the builders, as well as the craft with which the walls were built and the span was roofed.

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