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  • The Genius of Japanese Carpentry: Secrets of an Ancient Woodworking Craft by Brown, Azby
    Azby Brown

    The Genius of Japanese Carpentry: Secrets of an Ancient Woodworking Craft

    The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare. Although the...
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  • Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism by Uluhanli, Leyla
    Leyla Uluhanli

    Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism

    The most significant volume on synagogue architecture and design to date--brought to life by a stunning array of newly commissioned and archival photographs. This visually striking compendium illustrates the architectural and historical evolution of over 60 iconic synagogues worldwide. Beginning with the foremost archaeological...
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  • Creative Haven Rose Windows Coloring Book: Create Illuminated Stained Glass Special Effects by Avren, Joel S.
    Joel S. Avren

    Creative Haven Rose Windows Coloring Book: Create Illuminated Stained Glass Special Effects

    Based on designs of stained glass rose windows, these 31 images are specially shaded so that they will simulate the luminescence of actual stained glass when colored with wax crayons. Translucent colors work best to achieve this sparkling special effect. Pages are perforated and...
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  • Historic Rural Churches of Georgia by Seals, Sonny
    Sonny Seals

    Historic Rural Churches of Georgia

    Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early...
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  • Places of Light: The Gift of Cathedrals to the World by Candolini, Gernot
    Gernot Candolini

    Places of Light: The Gift of Cathedrals to the World

    Embark on a pilgrimage through the great cathedrals of the world. Gernot Candolini and Jennifer Brandon invite readers to experience some of the exemplary cathedrals of Europe and North America, with beautiful images and poetic, descriptive texts that inspire and inform. They offer glimpses...
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  • Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by King, Ross
    Ross King

    Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

    The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it. On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria...
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  • Fragrance of Glory: An Illustrated Account of the Ascension Of 'Abdu'l-Bahá by Day, Michael V.
    Michael V. Day

    Fragrance of Glory: An Illustrated Account of the Ascension Of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

    'Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of Bahá'u'lláh, was head of the Bahá'í faith from 1892 to 1921. This publication describes His passing ("Ascension") using rare photographs and fascinating information from new research. This landscape photo-book is beautifully designed and printed in hard cover.Author: Michael V. DayISBN-10:...
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  • Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom by Fitzgerald, Mary Anne
    Mary Anne Fitzgerald

    Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom

    A lavishly illustrated photographic journey through the history and traditions of the ancient churches of Ethiopia. The ancient Aksumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was among the first in the world to adopt Christianity as the official state religion. In AD 340 King...
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  • The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam by George, Alain
    Alain George

    The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam

    An expansive illustrated history of the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on...
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  • The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome by Morrissey, Jake
    Jake Morrissey

    The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

    The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by...
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  • Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith by Jenkins, Simon
    Simon Jenkins

    Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith

    The acclaimed best-selling author and popular historian explores the history of Europe via its cathedrals. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of the history of Western civilization showcases the cathedral's central role in the European imagination. A masterful writer, Jenkins tells...
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  • The Treasures of English Churches: Witnesses to the History of a Nation by Byrne, Matthew
    Matthew Byrne

    The Treasures of English Churches: Witnesses to the History of a Nation

    This celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries of accumulated wealth, and is set off by a selection of breathtaking photographs by Matthew Byrne. It covers changing architectural styles...
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  • Chicago Catholic Churches: A Sketchbook by Fillmore, Harrison
    Harrison Fillmore

    Chicago Catholic Churches: A Sketchbook

    It began as the hobby of a lifelong Chicagoan. Twenty-five years and more than three hundred freehand church sketches later, it acts as an archive for centuries of architectural and religious history. The pen-and-ink drawings meticulously capture the details of each individual church down...
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  • The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection by Fitchen, John
    John Fitchen

    The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection

    John Fitchen systematically treats the process of erecting the great edifices of the Gothic era. He explains the building equipment and falsework needed, the actual operations undertaken, and the sequence of these operations as specifically as they can be deduced today. Since there are...
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  • How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture by McNamara, Denis R.
    Denis R. McNamara

    How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture

    Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for architecture and history buffs, tourists, and churchgoers interested in decoding the styles and symbols of religious buildings. Every building contains clues embedded in its...
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  • The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition by Von Simson, Otto Georg
    Otto Georg Von Simson

    The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition

    The classic work on Gothic religious architecture, now with added illustrations and a new section by the author on rose windows No other monument of a culture so radically different from our own is as much a part of contemporary life as the Gothic...
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  • Stories in Light: A Guide to the Stained Glass of the Basilica at the University of Notre Dame by Cunningham, Cecilia Davis
    Cecilia Davis Cunningham

    Stories in Light: A Guide to the Stained Glass of the Basilica at the University of Notre Dame

    The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame contains one of the largest collections of late nineteenth-century French stained glass outside of France. The French Gothic-inspired church has forty-four large stained glass windows containing two hundred and twenty scenes. Today,...
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  • Chicago Catholic Churches: A Sketchbook by Fillmore, Harrison
    Harrison Fillmore

    Chicago Catholic Churches: A Sketchbook

    It began as the hobby of a lifelong Chicagoan. Twenty-five years and more than three hundred freehand church sketches later, it acts as an archive for centuries of architectural and religious history. The pen-and-ink drawings meticulously capture the details of each individual church down...
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  • The Monumental Complex of Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome by Barelli, Lia
    Lia Barelli

    The Monumental Complex of Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome

    The complex of Ss. Quattro Coronati in Rome is situated on the Caelian Hill between the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano and the valley of the Colosseum. Its diverse archaeological background together with the artistic and architectonic quality of its various components and...
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  • How to Read a Church: A Guide to Symbols and Images in Churches and Cathedrals by Taylor, Richard
    Richard Taylor

    How to Read a Church: A Guide to Symbols and Images in Churches and Cathedrals

    Churches and cathedrals were originally built to be read. They are alive with images and symbols--all of which are packed with meaning. But today few people, from regular visitors to tourists, truly understand the wealth of meaning in what they find there. How to...
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  • The Angel Roofs of East Anglia: Unseen Masterpieces of the Middle Ages by Rimmer, Michael
    Michael Rimmer

    The Angel Roofs of East Anglia: Unseen Masterpieces of the Middle Ages

    Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016 It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate carvings of angels, with a peculiar...
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  • Temple of Jerusalem by Goldhill, Simon
    Simon Goldhill

    Temple of Jerusalem

    It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millennia,...
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  • Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre Designed by David Chipperfield by Bright, Olivia Lawrence
    Olivia Lawrence Bright

    Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre Designed by David Chipperfield

    Chipperfield's new chapel in Japan, in sumptuous photography and textual materialThis book presents David Chipperfield's new architectural work realized in Japan, a contemporary place for prayer. The primary material will be photography: Risaku Suzuki's work documents the architecture, which is in constant dialogue with...
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  • Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space by Vittorio Aureli, Pier
    Pier Vittorio Aureli

    Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space

    In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress...
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  • Quakers and Their Meeting Houses by Skidmore, Chris
    Chris Skidmore

    Quakers and Their Meeting Houses

    This book provides a fascinating account of the architecture and historical development of the Quaker meeting house from the foundation of the movement to the twenty-first century. The Quaker meeting house is a distinctive building type used as a place of worship by members...
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  • The Gargoyle Book: 572 Examples from Gothic Architecture by Bridaham, Lester Burbank
    Lester Burbank Bridaham

    The Gargoyle Book: 572 Examples from Gothic Architecture

    Amid the soaring grandeur of arches and spires lurks a more down-to-earth architectural flourish: the grinning head of a gargoyle. Singly and clustered, these intriguing creatures form as distinctive an element of Gothic architecture as the flying buttress. Nowhere are they more prominent than...
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  • Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries by Michell, George
    George Michell

    Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries

    A visual exploration of the Deccan Indian architectural history. Contains maps guiding would-be travellers to these temple sites.Author: George MichellISBN-10: 1788841387ISBN-13: 9781788841382Publisher: Acc Art BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2021Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 6.56lbsSize: 13.23h x 10.08w x 1.65d
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  • Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Koudounaris, Paul
    Paul Koudounaris

    Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us

    A macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world today.This compact edition of Memento Mori takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour...
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  • Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Ball, Philip
    Philip Ball

    Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    "A lively, open-ended study of the building of Chartres Cathedral. . . . Ball puts the fun back in medieval scholasticism." --Los Angeles TimesChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western...
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  • Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia by Keser Kayaalp, Elif
    Elif Keser Kayaalp

    Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia

    Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural decoration, the heterogeneity of the...
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  • The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House by O'Meara, Simon
    Simon O'Meara

    The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House

    The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and...
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  • Essence of Japan: A Coloring Journey by Will, Joyce Yoshihara
    Joyce Yoshihara Will

    Essence of Japan: A Coloring Journey

    The "Essence of Japan" contains 30 beautiful illustrations that give you a taste of Japan's beauty and elegance. Travel through different prefectures such as Tokyo, Matsumoto, and Takayama's countryside.This book covers a wide range of images of Japan. Experience culture, traditions, and beauty through...
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  • The White Church of Blandford by Aieta, Nicholas J.
    Nicholas J. Aieta

    The White Church of Blandford

    In 1822, the White Church, designed by Isaac Damon, was constructed to house the Congregationalist worshippers in Blandford. Blandford, Massachusetts, was initially referred to as Glasgow Lands due to the European colonists of Scots descent who arrived in 1735. These Scots founded a Presbyterian...
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  • 50 Russian Orthodox Churches: A Photo Travel Experience by Vlasov, Andrey
    Andrey Vlasov

    50 Russian Orthodox Churches: A Photo Travel Experience

    Since the Christianization of Rus' in 988, the church has been playing a significant role in the public, cultural and everyday life of Russian people. The church became a sanctuary of the lifestyle of our ancestors. Visiting the church, they would not only pray...
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  • Studies in Persian Architecture by O'Kane, Bernard
    Bernard O'Kane

    Studies in Persian Architecture

    This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 25 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Persian architecture in its widest sense. His analyses range from historiography and tilework to the development of...
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  • The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition by Mortlock, D. P.
    Charles Roberts

    The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

    The profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk provides not only examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in their communities and offers an insight into the history of medieval England. The third revised and enlarged edition of The Guide to Norfolk Churches...
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  • Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space by Bermudez, Julio
    Julio Bermudez

    Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space

    How should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book offers a wide,...
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  • Borobudur: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education by Frederic, Louis
    Louis Frederic

    Borobudur: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education

    Author: Louis Frederic, Jean Louis NouISBN-10: 0789201348ISBN-13: 9780789201348Publisher: Abbeville PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/1996Pages: 347Format: HardcoverWeight: 7.23lbsSize: 13.10h x 11.88w x 1.61dReview Citation(s): New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 56
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  • The Chapels of Notre Dame by Cunningham, Lawrence S.
    Lawrence S. Cunningham

    The Chapels of Notre Dame

    The Chapels of Notre Dame celebrates the university's unique identity as a Catholic academic community where faith is treasured and diverse traditions shared and respected. This stunning large-format collection of over two hundred full-color photographs brings to life the sixty chapels located throughout Notre...
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  • The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present by Marder, Tod A.
    Tod A. Marder

    The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present

    The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately 125 AD on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and...
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  • Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages by Donkin, Lucy
    Lucy Donkin

    Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages

    Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in which people in medieval western Europe and beyond experienced sacred spaces.The ground beneath our feet plays a crucial, yet often overlooked, role in our relationship with the...
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  • The Symbolism of the Christian Temple by Hani, Jean
    Jean Hani

    The Symbolism of the Christian Temple

    That sacred art scarcely exists today is all too clear. We can perhaps speak of a "religious," but certainly not a sacred art. True sacred art is not sentimental or psychological, but ontological and cosmological in nature. Sacred art cannot be the result of...
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  • Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular by Fels, Patricia Tusa
    Patricia Tusa Fels

    Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular

    - Monsoon Mosques presents a finely curated selection of beautiful mosques from South and Southeast Asia - One of the first such books, it traces the spread of Islam through the Indian Ocean littoral and the ways in which local communities responded by building...
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  • The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London by Hollis, Leo
    Leo Hollis

    The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London

    'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for...
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  • American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion by Borys, Ann Marie
    Ann Marie Borys

    American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion

    The Unitarian religious tradition was a product of the same eighteenth-century democratic ideals that fueled the American Revolution and informed the founding of the United States. Its liberal humanistic principles influenced institutions such as Harvard University and philosophical movements like Transcendentalism. Yet, its role...
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  • Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches by Champion, Matthew
    Matthew Champion

    Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches

    For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms,...
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  • Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000 by Naquin, Susan
    Susan Naquin

    Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

    At the intersection of art and religious history, this work suggests a fresh method for studying Chinese gods and sacred places. Susan Naquin tells the full story of the transformations of the Lady of Mount Tai, North China's most important female deity, and her...
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  • The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions Into the Spirit of Place by Price, Travis
    Travis Price

    The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions Into the Spirit of Place

    The Mythic Modern offers an significant antidote to the perception of the American abroad, chronicling a remarkable fifteen years of design-build expeditions in extraordinary locales all over the globe by an international team of architecture students focused on exploring, not exploiting, the local cultures,...
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  • Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism by Ralls Phd, Karen
    Karen Ralls Phd

    Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism

    Cross the threshold into the world of the High Middle Ages and explore the illuminating wisdom, beauty and art of the Gothic cathedrals, stunning wonders of the medieval era for all to see today. From bejewelled stained glass windows to a pilgrimage on the...
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  • Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple by Dorje, Gyurme
    Gyurme Dorje

    Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple

    Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which...
    $60.00
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