Rudimentary architecture: for the use of beginners. The history and description of the styles of architecture of various countries, from the earliest to the present period .. (1874)
Bury, Thomas Talbot, 1811-1877 · London, J. Weale · leaf 36
columns with curtains hanging above them, so as tointercept all communication between the sexes. t Helena, the mother of Constantine, caused several churches to beerected in the East; the most celebrated was that of the Holy Sepulchre,at Jerusalem. The Church of the Nativity, at Bethlehem, supposed… … Court. c«oo»«eo9ooeeooo :3 d □ c West. St. So|)hia.This church, after twelve centuries, remains the same, vvith B 26 RUDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE. the exception of the mode of worship to which it is devoted.It still retains its former name, but the Mohammedans, insteadof the Christians, possess it.…
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