Although has become less dominant in new buildings, what type of church building is The Church of Transfiguration in Ramallah?
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Church of Transfiguration, Ramallah The Church of Transfiguration in Ramallah was inaugurated in 1852. The Basilica is of Byzantine style. The church contains sacred utensils and old Icons, some of which date back to 1830 and were transferred to the church after the destruction of small churches in Ramallah as a result of persecution and several wars.
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Basilica A basilica is a type of building, usually a Christian church, that is typically rectangular with a central nave and aisles, usually with a slightly raised platform and an apse at one or both ends. In Europe and the Americas it is the most common architectural style for churches though this building plan has become less dominant in new buildings since the later 20th century. Today the term "basilica" is often used to refer to any large, ornate church building, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, even if it does not strictly follow this style.
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Church of the Redeemer, Amman The Church of the Redeemer (Arabic: كنيسة الفادي) is the largest church by membership of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, and is located in Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Church of the Redeemer is home to an Arab congregation as well as a meeting place of the English-Speaking Anglican Congregation (ESAC).
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Holy Transfiguration Church, Gjirokastër Holy Transfiguration Church (Albanian: "Kisha e Shpërfytyrimit" ) is an orthodox church in Gjirokastër, Albania. The church was built in 1784. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania since 1963.
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Church of the Transfiguration (Spassky) "Church of the Transfiguration" "(Russian: Церковь Спаса Преображения )" is a defunct/inactive Russian Orthodox church located in the village of Spasskoe-Durnovo "(Russian: Спасское-Дурново )" on Zusha River, Chernsky District (Russian: Че́рнский райо́н ) of Tula region (Russian: Ту́льская о́бласть ).
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Church of the Multiplication The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, shortened to ("The Church of the Multiplication"), is a Roman Catholic church located at Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The modern church rests on the site of two earlier churches.
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Jaffa Clock Tower The Jaffa Clock Tower (Hebrew: מגדל השעון יפו‎ ‎ , "Migdal haShaon Yafo", Arabic: يافا برج الساعة‎ ‎ ) is one of seven clock towers built in Palestine during the Ottoman period. The others are located in Safed, Acre, Nazareth, Haifa, Nablus (West Bank) and Jerusalem, the last being the only one that has not survived until today.
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Church architecture of England Church architecture of England refers to the architecture of buildings of Christian churches in England. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion, partly by innovation and partly by imitating other architectural styles as well as responding to changing beliefs, practices and local traditions. Christian architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the foundation of Christianity to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Christian culture. From the birth of Christianity to the present, the most significant period of transformation for Christian architecture and design was the Gothic cathedral.
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Transfiguration Cathedral, Khabarovsk The Transfiguration Cathedral (Russian: Спасо-Преображенский собор, "Spaso-Preobazhensky sobor" ) on a steep bluff overlooking the Amur River in Khabarovsk stands 96 meters tall and is supposed to be the third tallest church in Russia after St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. It was built over 2001-2004 to a traditional design reminiscent of Konstantin Thon's works. The church is surmounted by four Ukrainian-style gilded domes, the central one being the largest. Its spectacular location on a hill was chosen by Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Alexis II of Moscow during a helicopter flight over Khabarovsk.
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Temple Mount The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת‎ ‎ , "Har HaBáyit", "Mount of the House [of God, i.e. the Temple]"), known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif (Arabic: الحرم الشريف‎ ‎ , "al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf", "the Noble Sanctuary", or الحرم القدسي الشريف , "al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf", "the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem"), a hill located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is one of the most important religious sites in the world. It has been venerated as a holy site for thousands of years by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The present site is dominated by three monumental structures from the early Umayyad period: the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain, as well as four minarets. Herodian walls and gates with additions dating back to the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods cut through the flanks of the Mount. Currently it can be reached through eleven gates, ten reserved for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, with guard posts of Israeli police in the vicinity of each.
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Aqabah Aqabah (Arabic: العقبة‎ ‎ , and also called Al Aqabah, Aqaba, or Al Aqaba) is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, which is being targeted for demolition by the Israeli Civil Administration (the IDF agency responsible for controlling the West Bank) as the majority of structures were alleged to have been built without permits from the Israeli military administration. Surrounded by two Israeli military bases and a ‘virtual wall’ of checkpoints, Al-Aqaba’s connections to neighboring communities, markets and the Jordan Valley have been gradually severed: since 1967, al-Aqaba’s population has decreased by 85%, dropping from around 2,000 to 300 today. While many al-Aqaba residents no longer live in the village itself, they still hope to return to their land, and still send their children to the local school.
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Russian Orthodox Church, Tunis The Russian Orthodox church in Tunis (Arabic: الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الروسية بتونس‎ ‎ ), also called " 'Church of the Resurrection' " (Russian: Церковь Воскресения Христова ) is a church Orthodox of the city of Tunis (Tunisia).
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Church of the Transfiguration, Ashgabat The Church of the Transfiguration is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic Church which was in Ashgabat in what is now the capital of Turkmenistan. The church was built in Ashabad from natural brick, in a Gothic style. In the huge altar was an icon of the Transfiguration of the Lord. On the sides of the altar were icons of Mary, donated by the Parish of St. Stanislav in St. Petersburg, and an icon of St. Expedite, ordered by the curator in Tashkent.
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Islamization of the Temple Mount The Islamization of the Temple Mount is a term used to describe the view that Muslim authorities have sought to appropriate and Islamicize the Temple Mount for exclusive Muslim use. Originally an Israelite and subsequently Jewish holy site, as the location of the First and Second Temples, the site was subsequently the location of a Roman pagan temple, a Byzantine church, a garbage dump, and later the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest site in Sunni Islam.
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Western Wall The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel (Hebrew: , translit.: "HaKotel HaMa'aravi "; Ashkenazic pronunciation: "HaKosel HaMa'arovi"; Arabic: حائط البراق‎ ‎ , translit.: "Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq", translat.: the Buraq Wall, or Arabic: المبكى‎ ‎ "al-Mabkā": the Place of Weeping) is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the "Western Wall". The wall was originally erected as part of the expansion of the Second Jewish Temple begun by Herod the Great, which resulted in the encasement of the natural, steep hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, in a large rectangular structure topped by a huge flat platform, thus creating more space for the Temple itself and its auxiliary buildings.
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Deir Es-Sultan Deir El-Sultan is a monastery located on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The "Status Quo", a 250-year old understanding between religious communities, applies to the site.
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Christ Church, Nazareth Christ Church (Hebrew: כנסיית המשיח‎ ‎ ) is a Protestant-Anglican church located in the town of Nazareth, Israel. Due to financial troubles the church was never finished and lacked its intended spire. However a spire was finally added 143 years later, in 2014. Nearby lies the famous Basilica of the Annunciation.
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Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (Russian: Церковь Спаса Преображения на Ильине улице ) is a former Russian Orthodox Church that stands on Ilyina (Elijah) Street in Veliky Novgorod just east of the Marketplace. The current building was built in 1374 and frescoed by Theophanes the Greek (Feofan Grek or Феофан Грек in Russian) in 1378. Substantial portions of those frescoes still remain, including the Christ Pantocrator in the dome, a number of saints inside the south entrance, and The Old Testament Trinity in the western vestry, as well as others. The current building is now a museum, part of the Novgorod State Museum-Preserve.
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Church of the Saviour, Baku The Church of the Saviour (Azerbaijani: "Xilaskar kilsəsi" ; German: "Erlöserkirche" , also known as the "kirkha", from the German word "Kirche") is a Lutheran church in Baku, Azerbaijan (28 May Street), built with donations by parishioner Adolf Eichler and consecrated on March 14, 1899. It is now a Ministry of Culture and Tourism concert hall. The Gothic-style church features a portal crowned with a decorated pediment. While Azerbaijan's Evangelical community ceased to exist in 1936, the church survived the Stalinist period because of petitions to Joseph Stalin in which the petitioners promised, in return for sparing the church, to pray for him till death. Nevertheless, Pastor Paul Hamburg and seven other members of the local Lutheran community were executed by firing squad on November 1, 1937.
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Church of Saint Mary of the Latins The Church of Saint Mary of the Latins (Latin: "Latina" ) was a church building in the Old City of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Clandestine church A clandestine church (Dutch: "schuilkerk" ), defined by historian Benjamin J. Kaplan as a "semi-clandestine church", is a house of worship used by religious minorities whose communal worship is tolerated by those of the majority faith on condition that it is discreet and not conducted in public spaces. "Schuilkerken" are commonly built inside houses or other buildings, and do not show a public façade to the street. They were an important advance in religious tolerance in the wake of the Reformation, an era when worship services conducted by minority faiths were often banned and sometimes penalized by exile or execution.
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Tomb of Samuel The Tomb of Samuel Hebrew: קבר שמואל הנביא‎ ‎ , translit. "Kever Shmuel ha-Nevi"; Arabic: النبي صموئيل‎ ‎ , translit. "an-Nabi Samu'il" or "Nebi Samwil"), is the traditional burial site of the biblical Hebrew and Islamic prophet Samuel, atop a steep hill at an elevation of 908 meters above sea level. It is situated in the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil in the West Bank, 1.3 kilometers north of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot. On the site is a building containing a mosque built in the 18th century that was formerly a church. The tomb itself is located in an underground chamber where a small synagogue is located. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism website states "Over time practically every ancient Jewish traveler mentioned the place and its synagogue."