Langhauskirche
English translation: longitudinal church
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| German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Architecture | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Paul Cohen Greenland Local time: 15:57 | ||||||
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| 3 +3 | longitudinal church |
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| 4 | cruciform church |
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peer agreement (net): +3longitudinal church Explanation: A longitudinal church is a church with a nave. "Longitudinal church of the cross-in-square type, with a square naos, a narthex on the west side and a triconch sanctuary on the east." http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp_rss/go/n451 "It is often claimed that one disadvantage of a longitudinal church is a loss of personal contact." http://www.aquinas-multimedia.com/catherine/manipulation.htm... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2007-10-22 22:33:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here's an interesting text that contrasts a traditional longitudinal church with modern in-the-round churches: "We have used longitudinal structures for parish churches for more than fifteen hundred years. In a ***longitudinal church*** all the lines perpendicular to the person "looking down the church" disappear into a single point: just above the vanishing point. In a longitudinal church building, the eye, heart, and mind are drawn to a point in the center of the sanctuary. This is a recognizably Catholic design—almost everyone entering the building knows instinctively where they are supposed to look. In a church in-the-round there can be no such focus. The eye sweeps across the composition—walls, ceiling, sanctuary—and finds no single place to rest. The average Catholic looks at a modern, in-the-round church and says "But it doesn't look like a church." http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/CHEAPCHU.HTM |
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