Types of Church Buildings - Cathedral, Basilica, Parish Church, Chapel, Stave Church, Eastern Orthodox Church Architecture, Collegiate Church (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Cathedral, Basilica, Parish church, Chapel, Stave church, Eastern Orthodox church architecture, Collegiate church, Minor basilica, Cafe church, Church of England parish church, Megachurch, Major basilica, Mother Church, Multi-site church, Friends meeting house, Parish close, Royal Peculiar, Co-cathedral, Stranger churches, Palisade church, Pro-cathedral, Cerkiew and ko cio, Oratory, Aisleless church, Cell church, Salvation Army corps, Post church, Preceptory, Parish Centre of Worship. Excerpt: A cathedral (French cathedrale from Lat. cathedra, "seat" from the Greek kathedra ( ), seat, bench, from kata "down" + hedra seat, base, chair) is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a religious building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and some Lutheran and Methodist churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. In the Greek Orthodox Church, the terms "kathedrikos naos" (literally: "cathedral shrine") is sometimes used for the church at which an archbishop or "metropolitan" presides. The term "metropolis" (literally "mother city") is used more commonly than "diocese" to signify an area of governance within the church. There are certain variations on the use of the term "cathedral"; for example, some pre-Reformation cathedrals in Scotland now within the Church of Scotland still retain the term cathedral, despite the Church's Presbyterian polity that does not have bishops. The same occurs in Germany, where Protestant churches (many with a presbyterian or congregational polity) co-operate under an umbrella organisation, the Evangelical Church in Germany, with some retaining cathedrals or using the term as a merely honorary title and function, ...