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Originally Posted by Mindfulness
Those are really nice Lisnaholic.
this is a nice bridge I interneted onto...
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^ That's a great bridge, Mindfulness; a simple design idea but really effective.
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The design of Christian churches isn't simple, but I find it very intriguing, partly because it's so widespread. They started out a couple of milennia ago and in the last 500 years they have spread out all round the world. Lots of style changes of course, but also many elements that stay the same too
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Mozambique
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Bali
But where ever the church is, architects are likely to call the main entrance bits "the west works", because the European tradition was that the altar end should face East - so that worshipers were pointing at Jerusalem, or so the theory goes. Not every European church follows that rule, but many do. So what happens in these other places? Do African churches point north? Do churches in Bali point west? And how about where you live? Do all the churches point in the same direction?