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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

CHURCH ARCHITECTURE

Architecture can be defined as the art or science of designing, making and building buildings. Church architecture can be said to be the art of making churches for the worship of Christians. Church architecture is a complex discipline and consists building of the aisle, apse, altar, belfry, buttress, chancel, chapel, gallery, nave, pew, pulpit, spandrels, vault among the other structures


Picture taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz_Cathedral


Acknowledgement: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/architecture
.                             http://www.norwich-churches.org/Glossary/glossary.shtm