Hamburg, Germany – Angular, asymmetrical, colorful and just plain extraordinary, there are modern churches that will have one looking in vain for a traditional steeple. All around the world, ...

Church design may be the only kind of architecture that you learn about in the nursery. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple…” Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new ...

Traditionalists frowned when St. Columba opened in St. Paul's Midway area in 1950. Flat-roofed, with slab limestone walls, slit windows and a floor plan shaped like a fish — an early Christian symbol ...

Houses of worship have certain physical characteristics that appeal to the senses. Building materials are often precious and placed with care. They include carvings of symbolic and allegorical meaning ...

A church, said Victor Hugo, is "a book in stone." And what —on Easter Sunday or any other Sunday — do we read there? Consider a Gothic cathedral like Notre-Dame, which also happens to be the very ...