- Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church - http://www.saintgregorys.org/
Church in San Francisco that was designed to accommodate the congregation's unusual liturgical practices. The official site includes a tour.
- Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture - http://home.att.net/~wegast/symbols/symbols.htm
An illustrated dictionary of Christian symbols, seasons and liturgical colors, with bibliography, by Walter Gast.
- Community Christian Church - http://www.community-christian.org/flwright.htm
Kansas City, Missouri, church and "steeple of light" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are still in use by a Disciples of Christ congregation. Information on architecture, art gallery, tours.
- Is There A Christian Architecture? - http://www.catholic.net/beauty_and_truth/template_article.phtml?article_id=400&channel_id=4
Duncan G. Stroik interviews Daniel Lee, an architect in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and son of Protestant missionaries on the church architecture of the late twentieth century.
- New Church Architecture Journal Launched - http://www.adoremus.org/299Murray.html
A new magazine, Sacred Architecture, edited by Duncan Stroik and devoted to issues of church architecture from an orthodox Catholic perspective premiered in December.
- Roots of Modernist Church Architecture - http://www.adoremus.org/1097-Stroik.html
In this article from Adoremus Bulletin Duncan Stroik, professor of architecture at Notre Dame University, shows how the Church adopted the architecture of the secular realm.
- Clifton Cathedral - http://www.cliftoncathedral.org.uk/
This boldly modern Roman Catholic Cathedral was among the first whose design followed the principles of the Second Vatican Council. Designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership, it was consecrated in 1973. The official site includes an illustrated description.
- People’s Salvation Cathedral - http://www.catedrala.ro
Plans, elevations and model submitted by architect Gh. Bratiloveanu for the competition to design a new cathedral in Bucharest, with explanation.
- The Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool (RC) - http://www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk/
The official site gives a history of this remarkable Modernist building completed in 1967. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, the circular plan and spiked elevation is intended to evoke Christ's crown of thorns. Includes virtual tour and history.
- Cathedral of Saint John Paul II - http://www.katedrajp.pl
Architect Frank J Kalata displays his modernistic designs for a cathedral in Krakow, Poland in honour of the late Pope John Paul II. There are no plans to build such a cathedral; the project is purely visionary.
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