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Architecture. Architectural type. Byzantine. Years built. 1950-1952. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral is the spiritual home of the largest Eastern Orthodox parish in Houston, Texas. It is located in Montrose and Neartown. [1] [2] The cathedral was built from 1950 to 1952 by the Greek community of Houston.
Eastern Orthodoxy - Byzantine, Schism, Reformation: At the beginning of the 2nd millennium of Christian history, the church of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, was at the peak of its world influence and power. Neither Rome, which had become a provincial town and its church an instrument in the hands of political interests, nor Europe under the Carolingian and ...
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These styles share a cluster of fundamental similarities, having been influenced by the common legacy of Byzantine architecture from the Eastern Roman Empire. Some of the styles have become associated with the particular traditions of one specific autocephalous Eastern Orthodox patriarchate, whereas others are more widely used within the ...
The purpose of this is practical: to help parishes and monasteries who are building new churches or are adapting non-Orthodox buildings, particularly in Britain. There are three main types of church design: centrally oriented (octagonal, square or circular design); basilica; cruciform. To these we shall now turn.
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, [1] Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Christian churches in sub-Saharan Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, [5 ...
The Monastery of Saint Catherine is the oldest active Eastern Orthodox monastery in the world, renowned for its extraordinary holdings of Byzantine art. (The Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian community after the Roman Catholic Church; Christianity split between Orthodoxy in the East and Roman Catholicism in the West in 1054, known ...
Traditional Eastern Orthodox churches are very elaborately decorated inside. They utilize gold, silver, and ornate mosaics, done in the style of icon painting, to decorate the church interior, evoking a feeling of grandeur. They are stylized after the Temple in Jerusalem and the celestial liturgy described by the Apostle John in the Book of ...
