The House of God: Church Architecture, Style and History

Throughout the world, amidst the increasing materialism of largely secular societies, churches continue to attract travellers, tourists, historians and worshippers. The reasons for this apparent paradox are not difficult to see.


The clarity, knowledge and insight of Edward Norman’s chronological survey are supported and enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of illustrations and photographs. The result is a perfect mix between the most-loved master buildings – from Hagia Sophia to Tokyo Cathedral – and the freshness of the less familiar – a mission church in Paraguay, a Baroque shrine in Goa.

The totality of Christian worship, a union of theology, spiritual experience and art, has nowhere been more fluently and movingly conveyed.