Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica’s veil. They comprise the continent’s landmarks and focal attractions and, for centuries, have been ...

This course seeks to provide a broad survey of the early centuries of Christian architecture and art, both in the East and in the West. The semester is structured around a series of interrelated ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping it would ...

Soar over the magnificent Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, in this awe-inspiring aerial journey. This stunning drone footage ...

The Byzantine structure going up on East Fifth Street near North Wilmot Road is a $1.9 million church that's being built to accommodate growth among local Orthodox Christians. The new church is ...

The decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reconvert the Kariye (Chora) Museum into a mosque is a “blatant attempt to erase Istanbul’s rich Byzantine heritage”, says Robert G.

The Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine stands at the foot of Mount Horeb where, the Old Testament records, Moses received the Tablets of the Law. The mountain is known and revered by Muslims as Jebel ...

Spires are a characteristic feature of cathedrals and churches across the world. But in Hyderabad’s Boggulakunta, the Byzantine dome of Wesley Centenary Church contrasts sharply with the spires of ...

Hagia Sophia’s conversion from a museum into a mosque has seen thousands and thousands of words committed to the page across the globe. Most of it recycles the same information - that the great church ...