Explore some of the world's most beautiful churches in more than 200
color photographs--including chapels, basilicas, and cathedrals dating
from the Middle Ages to today.
From early basilicas to magnificent medieval cathedrals, from simple
churches in rural Africa to 21st-century award-winning designs, this
stunning volume reveals the different approaches to faith across the
centuries, shifting architectural styles, and the effect of history on
Christianity--and how Christianity affected history in return.
Encompassing Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Coptic, Lutheran, Christian
Scientist, Baptist, and Calvinist beliefs, the churches include stone
and wooden structures; ones that have been knocked down and rebuilt, or
even moved from one location to another; buildings cut into rock and
earth; and some constructed in some of the least hospitable locations on
Earth.
The churches include*:*
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts
The Church of the Holy Ascension, Unalaska, Alaska
Notre-Dame Basilica, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Catedral de Santa María la Menor, Dominican Republic: Oldest church in
the Americas
UNESCO World Heritage Wooden Church, Chiloe Island, Patagonia, Chile
Brasília Cathedral, Brazil
St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Westminster Abbey, London, England
Notre-Dame, Paris, France
Chartres Cathedral, France
Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany (destroyed by Allied bombing during WWII,
rebuilt in the 1990s after German reunification)
St Basil's, Red Square, Moscow, Russia
Little Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
Hanging Church, Cairo, Egypt
Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Beirut, Lebanon
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Israel
Dhanushkodi Portuguese Church, Tamil Nadu, India
San Agustin Church, Manila, Philippines
Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia
Old St Paul's, Pipitea, Wellington, New Zealand
