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Chicago is also a prominent center of the Polish Cathedral style of church architecture.

The church is considered by many to be an exemplary masterpiece of Roman Baroque architecture.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

“ A church is the place, par excellence, of architecture ,” he said in an interview with architectural historian Judith Dupré.

He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

Some places in town with Romanesque architecture are part of the holiday route Romanesque Road, such as St Servatius ' church at the castles hill, St Wigbert's church down the valley and St Maries church on the Montsion's hill (' Muenzenberg ').

Motto of the French republic on the Tympanum_ ( architecture ) | tympanum of a Church ( building ) | church.

Ussher says that Ninian left Candida Casa for Cluayn-coner in Ireland, and eventually died in Ireland ; that his mother was a Spanish princess ; that his father wished to regain him after having assented to his training for an ecclesiastical state ; that a bell comes from heaven to call together his disciples ; that a wooden church was raised by him, with beams delivered by stags ; and that a harper with no experience at architecture was the builder of the church.

Bramante's work in the city, which included Santa Maria presso San Satiro ( a reconstruction of a small 9th-century church ), the beautiful luminous tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie and three cloisters for Sant ' Ambrogio, drew also on his studies of the Early Christian architecture of Milan such as the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Solitude Palace in Stuttgart and Chinese Palace in Oranienbaum, the Bavarian church of Wies and Sanssouci in Potsdam are examples of how Rococo made its way into European architecture.

San Giovanni degli Eremiti, a church showing elements of Byzantine, Arabic and Norman architecture.

* The church of Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1658 – 1671 ), for Cardinal Camillo Pamphilii ( nephew of Pope Innocent X ); it is one of the most elegant samples of baroque architecture in Rome, with its splendid interior of marble, stuccoes, and gilded decorations.

Edward does not appear to have been interested in books and its associated arts, but his Abbey played a vital role in the development of English Romanesque architecture, and shows that he was an innovating and generous patron of the church.

The church is also known as being one of the most pure examples of Gothic architecture.

Believers have continually looked at the story of Ann Lee as a cornerstone of the theological architecture that has distinguished their church from other American religious groups.

An important example of Apulian Romanesque architecture, the church has a simple Romanesque façade with three portals ; in the upper part is a rose window decorated with monstruous and fantasy figures.

* San Michele Maggiore ( St. Michael ) is an outstanding example of Lombard-Romanesque church architecture in Lombardy.

* The church of Santa Maria del Carmine is one of the best known examples of Gothic brickwork architecture in northern Italy.

During this period much Gothic architecture sprang up around Naples, including the Naples Cathedral, which is the main church of the city.

The principal words typically used to distinguish houses of worship in Western Christian architecture are basilica, cathedral and church.

* Église Notre-Dame-la-Grande – oldest romanesque architecture church in Europe

He emphasized to the Presiding Elder the plan of giving up the old church and moving across the river.

However, in recent times, leaders of the church have emphasized that Latter-day Saints should not restrict their study of the standard works to the particular book being currently studied in Sunday School or other religious courses.

In 1995, the church announced a new logo design that emphasized the words " JESUS CHRIST " in large capital letters, and de-emphasized the words " The Church of " and " of Latter-day Saints ".

His services to his church have been summed up thus: ( 1 ) he has a keen sense of the proportion of the faith and maintains a clear distinction between what is fundamental, needing ecclesiastical commands, and subsidiary, needing only ecclesiastical guidance and suggestion ; ( 2 ) as distinguished from the earlier protesting standpoint, e. g. of the Thirty-nine Articles, he emphasized a positive and constructive statement of the Anglican position.

He acknowledged the existence of the state as a dispensation of Providence, described the coexistence of church and state as a divine ordinance, and emphasized the necessity of union between the sacerdotium and the imperium.

While priests emphasized works of religiosity, the respectability of the church began diminishing, especially among well educated urbanites, and especially considering the recent strings of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of Pope Boniface VIII by Philip IV of France, the " Babylonian Captivity.

The 79 canons were renewed from earlier councils, and emphasized the duty of Easter Communion in one's own parish church, and of abstinence on Saturday for beneficed persons and ecclesiastics, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, a practice begun three centuries earlier on the occasion of the Truce of God, but no longer universal.

Nestorius ' doctrine, Nestorianism, which emphasized the disunity between Christ's human and divine natures, had brought him into conflict with other church leaders, most notably Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria.

Phillpotts ' position was that of the traditional High Churchman, with little sympathy either with the evangelicals or with the Tractarians, although he was considered to represent the conservative high church wing of the Oxford Movement and emphasized liturgical forms of worship, episcopal government, monastic life, and early Christian doctrine as normative of orthodoxy.

In the following year he began publishing a monthly periodical ( Scherzhafte und ernsthafte, vernüftige und einfältige Gedanken über allerhand lustige und nutzliche Bücher und Fragen ) in which he ridiculed the pedantic weaknesses of the learned, taking the side of the Pietists in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and Calvinists ; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural reason and a paper defending marriage between Lutherans and members of the Reformed church.

It emphasized a deep, personal, ongoing encounter with God, and a practical, daily commitment to one's local church.

From 1898 to 1901, church president Lorenzo Snow repeatedly emphasized the importance of eating meat sparingly, teaching that church members should refrain from eating meat except in case of dire necessity, and should be seen in light of Joseph Smith's teaching that animals have spirits.

With regard to the controversy, Henry Herx, director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Office of Film and Broadcast ( successor to the Legion of Decency ) emphasized that the Catholic League is not an official agency of the church.

Young emphasized what he said was Joseph Smith's authorization that the Quorum of the Twelve should be the church's central governing body of the church after Smith's death.

* Passing the sacrament first to the presiding church authority was emphasized in 1946.

He acknowledged the existence of the state as a dispensation of Providence, described the coexistence of church and state as a divine ordinance, and emphasized the necessity of union between the sacerdotium and the imperium.

According to Harold Bender and several of his colleagues, the Anabaptists were " voluntaristic in religious choice, advocates of a church completely free from state influence, biblical literalists, non-participants in any government activity to avoid moral compromise, suffering servant disciples of Jesus who emphasized moral living and who were persecuted and martyred as Jesus had been, and restitutionists who tried to restore pre-Constantinian Christian primitivism.

It emphasized also the phenomena of Christian experience and deemed miracle and mystery to be of the essence in a spirit-filled church.

Concerning liturgical reforms, Emperor Otto I already emphasized the need for a reform of monasticism in Southern Italy and to abandon local liturgies in favour of the Roman rite, a kind of second Carolingian reform, and he already wished to " liberate " Arab Sicily and to organize church provinces of the island which was mainly populated by Muslims and by a Greek Christians.

The doctrines taught are the same ; however, the emphasis on principles, church structure and church culture is more emphasized in fledgling areas, while emphasis in established areas focuses more on application of the principles taught.

The Associate Reformed Synod of the West maintained the characteristics of an immigrant church with Scotch-Irish roots, emphasized the Westminster Standards, used only the Psalms in public worship, was Sabbatarian, and was strongly abolitionist and anti-Catholic.

Her parents emphasized the children getting educated and being involved in the church, and her father encouraged Houston and her siblings to sing.