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Guide to the many medieval churches the city from Your Way to Florence: brief histories, some with photographs.
www.arca.net
Outline and beautiful sample pictures from the book 'Beyond the Walls: Churches of Jerusalem' by Aviva Bar-Am, former Jerusalem Post correspondent. Book may be ordered from this page.
www.christusrex.org
Barbados: Religion and Spiritual Retreats
The Barbados Tourism Authority provides an interactive map of historic churches, leading to a photograph and outline history for each. The oldest is St George's (1784).
barbados.org
Frank Greenagel records the 18th and 19th century churches of New Jersey. Provides a database and photographic inventory, features, events list.
njchurchscape.com
St. Brigid Catholic Church, San Francisco
Noted for its Irish stained-glass windows, 19th-century Romanesque architecture, and its Ruffatti organ. History, description, expandable photographs.
www.st-brigid.org
Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation
Dedicated to the conservation of churches and other religious buildings in Quebec. Illustrated introduction and detailed, scholarly dissertations and monographs on specific buildings and topics.
www.patrimoine-religieux.qc.ca
History and tour via sensitive cutaway drawing of the shrine in Monte Sant'Angelo on the Gargano peninsula. The shrine in a natural cavern lies at the heart of a complex of medieval buildings.
www.gargano.it
Cathedrals and Churches of St. Petersburg
Fine photographs by Boris Kuznetsov with descriptions from 'Orthodox St.Petersburg', ed. Maria Lyzhenkova (1996). Hosted by St Petersburg State Technical University.
www.unilib.neva.ru
First Congregational Church, Orwell, Vermont
Photographs, 19th-century painting and history of this fine example of the Greek Revival style, built in 1842 by Frederick Bostwick and Fobes. Hosted by the University of Vermont.
www.uvm.edu
St. George's Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A virtual tour of the Byzantine Revival church designed in 1916 by Erhard Brielmaier for the Melkite Greek Catholic community.
www.melkite.org
Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park Tourist provides an online tour with plan, photographs and history of the remarkable cubist concrete church designed in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Wright.
www.oprf.com
The Built Environment of American Religion
Bibliography of American churches by Peter W. Williams from the Material History of American Religion Project.
www.materialreligion.org
Margaret Visser: The Geometry of Love
A book exploring the basilican church of Sant Agnese fuori le Mura, Rome, rebuilt 625-38 to replace a 4th-century church. The author supplies her biography, reviews of the book and images with extracts from it.
www.margaretvisser.com
Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois
Official site of the remarkable cubist concrete church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright reproduces the original 1906 brochure with plans, drawings and the design philosophy for the building.
www.unitytemple.org
The Many Mansions of God's House
An essay by James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University, on the style and location of church buildings in America, from the Material History of American Religion Project.
www.materialreligion.org