The Influence of Religious Beliefs on the Architecture

Journal Title: Dini Araştırmalar -Altı Aylık Bilimsel Dergi- - Year 2014, Vol 17, Issue 44

Abstract

Focusing on the values of the past, examining into the components in their formation and revealing the contexts in which they were created will facilitate hnding effective solutions for the future. It is a well known fact that the factors that affect the architecture are the physical factors (settlement, climate, material, etc.) and cultural factors (the characteristics of people, economy, traditions, religious beliefs, family and society, basic needs, building construction techniques, etc.). It is fairly difficult to distinguish these factors from each other in the formation and foundation of architecture. Architectural space seen, heard, sensed, measured, felt capable of factors besides effective in shaping that we identify, we can not see, can not feel, but we estimate that there are factors that are in. Religion, belief composed of architecture, their in the creation of thought, space, to the construction, decoration, structure effect sufficiently be unprocessed, architecture, belief, examine the impact of beliefs originating from architecture to reveal it was necessary. For this purpose, a wide range of issues which require to examine the history of civilizations and religions, with examples from architecture consisting thereof, and thus the impact on religious architecture is to open the window

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Birgül Çakıroğlu, Nihan Engin

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  • EP ID EP229318
  • DOI 10.15745/da.15517
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Birgül Çakıroğlu, Nihan Engin (2014). The Influence of Religious Beliefs on the Architecture. Dini Araştırmalar -Altı Aylık Bilimsel Dergi-, 17(44), 67-92. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-229318