Name: Sacred Spaces
Uploaded: 2017
Description: Why do we feel such emotion when we enter a church, a temple, a mosque, or a synagogue? These timeless spaces have beauty and mystery.

Why do we feel such emotion when we enter a church, a temple, a mosque, or a synagogue? These timeless spaces have beauty and mystery.

Tracing the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism across India, Burma, Mongolia, and Japan. Stunning temples that showcase a seemingly impossible array of color and artistic wonder of both the divine and the enlightened.

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Tracing the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism. Temples that showcase a seemingly impossible array of color and wonder of both the divine and the enlightened.

Asian Temples: Humans, Nature and Gods

Come visit some of the great places of worship of the Jewish world. This is an opportunity for an exciting journey into the history of the diaspora, the dispersion of Judaism and the founding of the Jewish state in Israel.

Come visit some of the great places of worship of the Jewish world. This is an opportunity for an exciting journey into the history of the diaspora.

Synagogues: Absence and Presence

Witnesses to faith, and markers of the power of great Muslim rulers, the mosques tell us, by their diversity, the whole history of Islam, its spirituality incarnated in monuments where sacred architecture reaches the heights of ingenuity and beauty.

Witnesses to faith, and markers of the power of great Muslim rulers, the mosques tell us, by their diversity, the whole history of Islam.

Mosques: Art and Space

From Jerusalem to Mont Saint-Michel, from Florence to Moscow, the Christian monumental style transformed itself at every crucial turn in Christianity’s history, including the division of Eastern from Western orthodoxies, the advent of Gothic architecture, the Muslim conquests, and the Renaissance.

From Jerusalem to Mont Saint-Michel, from Florence to Moscow, the Christian monumental style transformed itself at every crucial turn in Christianity’s history.