quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
That's one part of it. Another part is that church designers were seemingly colour blind, while their muslim counterparts appear to understand that yellow, orange and maroon don't look good together. I also find many churches very busy. In my extremely limited experience, mosques seem busy too, but their symmetricality and order make it work. |
This is the main reason I went on the trip. I wasn't too interested in it originally, but I spoke with a chaplain here on base who talked about it and said that it would be good for my scientific/logical mind to see the architecture of the place.
but I tell you, when I walked from the Paradise room (bottom pic) to the main room, I was floored by the openness/vastness of the place. I've been in very large churches before, but something about this was really way different. Maybe because of the lack of a "front" to it. I mean, the one wall was where Mecca was, and there was the "niche" for where the person would speak...but it's a lot different than an alter you see in a Catholic Church.
I enjoy all sorts of architecture though. I thought about it in high school, but it was more of a jee-whizz thing, rather than something I wanted to do with my life.
Fun fact: the diameter of the largest chandelier is 10 meters, and the entire thing weighs if I remember correctly, 7 tons.
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