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Holy Sites Encircled - The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem (Hardcover)
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Holy Sites Encircled - The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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The round and octagonal churches of Jerusalem were the earliest of
their kind. Powerful, monumental structures, recalling imperial
mausolea and temples, they enshrined the holiest sites of
Christianity. Constantine himself ordered the building of the first
ones immediately after the council of Nicaea (325), his main
objective being the authentication of Jesus's existence in
Jerusalem in accordance with the council's resolutions, but the
sites he chose in Palestine also obliterated reminiscences of
Jewish or Pagan domination. Holy Sites Encircled demonstrates that
all four concentric churches of Jerusalem encircled new holy sites
exclusively relating to the corporeal existence of Jesus or Mary,
and that they were self-contained, and apse-less because the
liturgy, including the Mass, was performed from the venerated
centre. Offering intimate concentric spaces, as well as perpetual
processions around these sites, they promoted the development of
new feasts, shaping the city's liturgy and that of the whole
Christian world. They were found especially suitable to compete
with former religious landmarks and therefore many of their
descendants outside Jerusalem were cathedrals. This volume begins
with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which replaced a pagan
temple in Jerusalem city centre, and concludes with the Dome of the
Rock, a unique Muslim structure, which was built by the Umayyads on
the very site of the ruined Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah, using
the concentric architecture of Jerusalem to establish their new
authority. Illustrating how architectural form links together
culture, politics, and society it explores the perceptions and
architectural models that shaped these unusual churches and their
impact, in both ideas and design, on future architecture.
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