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Christianity
Armenian Church
Mar 10th
Armenia is a region in north-eastern Turkey and north-western Iran, and includes an independent commonwealth between the Black and the Caspian Seas. No one knows exactly when Christianity first arrived there. In 314 C.E. Tiridates, the king of the country, converted to Christianity. Armenia then became the first nation in which Christianity was the established or official religion. Armenian Christianity took distinctive form in the fifth century. At that time the Bible and many church writings were translated into Armenian. More >
Gothic Style
Mar 10th
The term Gothic was unknown to the architects of the Middle Ages who practiced the style. They called their idiom – marked by soaring walls with vast windows – the ‘French Style,’ for the country form which it sprang, through the midwifery of a Benedictine Abbot named Suger in the year 1144. That was when Suger unveiled the rebuilt abbey and church of St. Denis, outside Paris. More >
Sucevita Monastery, Romania
Mar 10th
Sucevita Monastery, one of the most magnificent religious buildings in Romania, is a monument to two 16th century local chiefs and the murderess Elizaveta, who poisoned her husband so that her sons could inherit the throne. All of these figures are featured in splendid frescoes that adorn the walls of the complex. The monastery church was built in 1584, the outer walls a little later. More >
Ethiopian and Separatist Churches
Mar 10th
Compared with activities in the Americas and Asia, European colonization of Africa began relatively late, in the 1870s. In the 19th century, North Africa, new religious movements inAmerican and European, especially British, Christians took missionary work very seriously. They also took their own superiority for granted, and they acted in ways that made their racist attitudes and presuppositions all too apparent. More >
Unitarian Meeting House – Wisconsin
Sep 13th
by Lydiat
When the First Unitarian Society of Madison decided that it needed a new meetinghouse in 1946, it commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright, a member of its congregation, to design it. Five years later, the FUS was the proud possessor of such an extraordinary-looking church complex that it has since been declared a US National Historic Landmark.
The most striking feature of the structure was the steeply pitched copper-clad roof, which extended almost to the ground and whose apical ridge formed such a sharp point that the overall effect was like an arrowhead or prow. 
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