Hamburg, Germany – Angular, asymmetrical, colorful and just plain extraordinary, there are modern churches that will have one looking in vain for a traditional steeple. All around the world, ...

Church design may be the only kind of architecture that you learn about in the nursery. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple…” Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new ...

In a rapidly urbanizing China, some houses of worship are taking inspiration from the Bible while rethinking local architectural tradition. A scroll-shaped steeple. An imposing ark-shaped atrium. A ...

Traditionalists frowned when St. Columba opened in St. Paul's Midway area in 1950. Flat-roofed, with slab limestone walls, slit windows and a floor plan shaped like a fish — an early Christian symbol ...

Houses of worship have certain physical characteristics that appeal to the senses. Building materials are often precious and placed with care. They include carvings of symbolic and allegorical meaning ...

From Lafond Avenue, on the building’s south side, the first thing that catches the eye is the tall Irish tower. … but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a ...

In the United States today, the vast majority of people are born in hospitals, are educated in schools, find their recreation in groups ranging from Boy Scouts to investment clubs, pursue their life’s ...

The Danes are among the least religiously observant people in the world, with just 2.4 per cent of the population attending church on a weekly basis. Across the country, rural churches are empty, ...

When most people think of church seating, they think of pews. But modern churches are rethinking their seating options. While pews are still a popular option, church seating chairs are quickly ...