What is your favourite form of Church Architecture?

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  1. Gothic
  2. Baroque
  3. Renaissance
  4. Modern (I’m only including this option for those posters who suffer from ADD - Aesthetic Deficiency Disorder. 😃
  5. Other
 
SJP said:
  1. Gothic
  2. Baroque
  3. Renaissance
  4. Modern (I’m only including this option for those posters who suffer from ADD - Aesthetic Deficiency Disorder. 😃
  5. Other
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Byzantine, Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival.
 
  1. Spanish, which is typically romanesque with French/German gothic elements.
 
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Byzantine, Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival.
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I like mission style too, in fact that is the style of our church.

I am not opposed to modern if it is done well. I have been to a few modern churches that are truly beautiful from an artistic point of view. I sometimes like the starkness of these churches.

My favorite chuch is a tiny Romanesque church in Assisi that has to be over 1,000 years old, has no decoration but only a simple crucifix and a statue of Our Lady and an ancient baptismal font. I spent hours in that church the week I was there.
 
Having grown up (at first) with a beautiful church (style unknown) - then having to attend Mass in a school gymnasium/cafeteria for more years than I care to count (but finding Him there anyway, despite the well-meaning yet mind-numbing guitar music)…

And having seen many different churches since…

I’ve concluded that, to one degree or another, all Catholic churches have something of His beauty (architecturally) to be found in them, even some of the modern ones. So long as they’re Catholic churches, I’m a happy attendee - my “happiness” with the architecture not being the reason I’m attending in the first place.
 
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Although a bit over the top I like Rococo architecture. Which is a school of Baroque

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ottobeuren-basilika.jpg

There’s a new generation of traditional architectural styles that impresses me though- I wish I had links or even names, but I can’t recall anyone in particular
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Google “Henry Menzies” or “Adam Stroik” and you’ll see some new things in a traditional style you will truly love!
 
Gothic for the most part.

But there are some very good “modern” churches being built, like the one over in the next town from us. I am posting a link where you can see it being constructed.

www.stmarych.org

Then click on the link to the new church being built. They have live webcams on the construction.
 
Art Deco Neo-Gothic or

what for a lack of a better term I must call

Byzantine. You know–Onion Domes! And LOTS of Icons inside! 😃
 
I like the Classical Roman:

http://www.stsebastianct.org/images/top1.jpg

Here’s a 20th century church built in that style. Inside there is a large fresco of St. Sebastian on the ceiling, the stations of the cross and the images on the side altars are mosaic, and the altar looks like this:

http://www.stsebastianct.org/images/sts.gif

There are images of busts of Roman saints as a border around the walls as well as the phrase Gloria in excelsis deo in that font of Latin that looks really Roman (don’t know how to describe it properly).
 
SJP said:
  1. Gothic
  2. Baroque
  3. Renaissance
  4. Modern (I’m only including this option for those posters who suffer from ADD - Aesthetic Deficiency Disorder. 😃
  5. Other
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What ever kind St. Paul’s Cathedral in St. Paul, MN.
 
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