Sacred architecture /
by Caroline Humphrey, Piers Vitebsky.
- Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 1997.
- 184 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- Living Wisdom. .
Title on cover : Models of the cosmos--Symbolic form and ornament--Traditions of East and West.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture and the cosmos--Sacred and social dimensions--Ritual and ceremony--Types and traditions--Boudaries, thresholds and the centre--The architecture of the afterlife--Documentary reference.
0316381225
Architecture and religion. Symbolism in architecture.