Church Architecture

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Sofia Bulgaria)
Architect: Alexander Pomerantsev
1882 - 1912 Architecture

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

St. Andrew's Cathedral
Architect: Ronald MacPherson
1856-61 Architecture

St. Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore is an Anglican cathedral. It was built in the neo-Gothic style also called GothicRevival with elaborate stained-glass windows decorating the apse. The logo of the cathedral is the St Andrew's Cross.

St. Basil's Cathedral
1555 Architecture

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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, known in English as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia. The building, now a museum. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible.

The original building contained eight chapels arranged around a ninth, central chapel dedicated to the Intercession; a tenth chapel was erected in 1588 over the grave of the venerated local saint Vasily (Basil). The cathedral has nine domes (each one corresponding to a different church) and is shaped like the flame of a bonfire rising into the sky.[7] Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in his book Russian Architecture and the West, states that "it is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

As part of the program of state atheism, the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's antireligious campaigns and has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was completely secularized in 1929, and remains a federal property of the Russian Federation.

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When we think of Christian architecture, we may picture towering cathedrals with intricate stained-glass windows, but the roots of this style are much more humble. The earliest Christian structures were not grand, but rather simple house churches. As Christianity grew, its places of worship grew in size and intricacy.

The transition from early Christian to medieval architecture paralelled societal and religious changes. The Romanesque style, characterized by its rounded arches and massive walls, was followed by the Gothic style with its pointed archs, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.

Christian architecture has created some of the world’s most iconic structures. These buildings all share a common thread: they are physical manifestations of the Christian faith.

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