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Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
Church in San Francisco that was designed to accommodate the congregation's unusual liturgical practices. The official site includes a tour.
www.saintgregorys.org
Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture
An illustrated dictionary of Christian symbols, seasons and liturgical colors, with bibliography, by Walter Gast.
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Kansas City, Missouri, church and "steeple of light" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are still in use by a Disciples of Christ congregation. Information on architecture, art gallery, tours.
www.community-christian.org
Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association
EASA is a non-profit organisation in the UK which promotes good standards of design and repair of ecclesiastical buildings across all denominations.
www.easanet.co.uk
Christianity Today: Building and Transportation
Articles from Your Church magazine covering many aspects of church design, building and maintenance.
www.christianitytoday.com
Is There A Christian Architecture?
Duncan G. Stroik interviews Daniel Lee, an architect in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and son of Protestant missionaries on the church architecture of the late twentieth century.
www.catholic.net
New Church Architecture Journal Launched
A new magazine, Sacred Architecture, edited by Duncan Stroik and devoted to issues of church architecture from an orthodox Catholic perspective premiered in December.
www.adoremus.org
Roots of Modernist Church Architecture
In this article from Adoremus Bulletin Duncan Stroik, professor of architecture at Notre Dame University, shows how the Church adopted the architecture of the secular realm.
www.adoremus.org
This boldly modern Roman Catholic Cathedral was among the first whose design followed the principles of the Second Vatican Council. Designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership, it was consecrated in 1973. The official site includes an illustrated description.
www.cliftoncathedral.org.uk
Plans, elevations and model submitted by architect Gh. Bratiloveanu for the competition to design a new cathedral in Bucharest, with explanation.
www.catedrala.ro
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool (RC)
The official site gives a history of this remarkable Modernist building completed in 1967. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, the circular plan and spiked elevation is intended to evoke Christ's crown of thorns. Includes virtual tour and history.
www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk
Cathedral of Saint John Paul II
Architect Frank J Kalata displays his modernistic designs for a cathedral in Krakow, Poland in honour of the late Pope John Paul II. There are no plans to build such a cathedral; the project is purely visionary.
www.katedrajp.pl
The Roughwood British Churches Album
Photographs of the interior and exterior features of historical churches in England.
www.roughwood.net