Amazing Churches

Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Amazing Churches includes more than 100 chapels, basilicas and cathedrals dating from the Middle Ages to the present-day. Every great church makes a statement, and it is seldom simply theological. An offering of thanks to a beloved minister, a monument to a powerful ruler, a colonialist vaunt a church is never really just a church. Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate, from the Middle East and across Europe, from Alaska to Argentina, Asia to Africa, the construction of churches has given the world some of its most beautiful buildings its most splendid interiors, its most atmospheric spaces, an inspiration not just to Christians but to humankind.