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Church Flashcards

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A building for public christian worship

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Church

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The religion founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches

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Christianity

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The forecourt of an early Christian church, flanked or surrounded by porticoes

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Atrium

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The covered walk of an atrium or cloister

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Ambulatory

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A basin for a ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica

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Cantharus

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An early Christian church, characterized by a long, rectangular plan, a high colonnaded nave lot by a clerestory and covered by a timber gable roof, two or four lower side aisles, a semicircular apse at the end, a narthex, and often other features

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Basilica

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A building for public Christian worship

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Church

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A semicircular or polygonal projection of a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the sanctuary or east end of a church

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Apse, Apsis

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The bishop’s throne, occupying a recess or apse on an early Christian church

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Tribune

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A transverse open space separating the nave and the apse of an early Christian church, developing into the transept of later cruciform churches

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Bema

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A sacred or holy place, as that part of a church in which the principal altar is placed

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Sanctuary

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The table in a Christian church upon which the Eucharist, the sacrament celebrating Christ’s last supper, is celebrated

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Altar, Communion Table

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An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently placed over the altar in a church

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Baldachino, Baldachin, Baldaquin, Ciborium

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The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or chancel and usually flanked by aisles

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Nave

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Any of the longitudinal divisions of a church, separated from the nave by a row of columns or piers

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Aisle

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Either of two raised stands from which the gospels or epistles were read or chanted in an early Christian church

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Ambo, Ambon

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A part of a f a church or a separate building in which baptism is administered

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Baptistery, Baptistry

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A sacrament of initiation into Christianity, symbolic of spiritual regeneration, marked by a ceremonial immersion or application of water

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Baptism

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A basin usually of stone, holding the water used in baptism

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Font

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A portico or vestibule before the nave of an early Christian or Byzantine church, occupied by those not yet christened

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Narthex

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An inner narthex when two are present

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Esonarthex

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A covered walk or outer narthex situated before an inner narthex

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Exonarthex

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A representation of a sacred Christian personage, such as Christ or a saint or angel, typically painted on a wood surface and itself venerated as being sacred especially in the tradition of the eastern church

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Icon

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A screen or partition on which icons are placed, separating the bema from the nave of an eastern church

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Iconostasis, Iconostas

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A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church

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Exedra, Exhedra

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A low screen in an early Christian basilica, separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation

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Cancelli

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A stone coffin especially one bearing sculpture or inscriptions and displayed as a monument

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Sarcophagus

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A sacristy in an early Christian or eastern church, usually on the south side of the bema

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Diaconicon

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A room in a church where the sacred vessels and vestments are kept

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Sacristy, Vestry

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A chapel in an eastern church where the Eucharistic elements are prepared, usually on the north side of the bema

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Prothesis

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The monumental western front of a Romanesque church, treated as a tower or towers containing a low entrance hall below and a chapel open to the nave above

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West work

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A rose window having distinctly radiating millions or bars

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Wheel Window, Catherine Wheel, Marigold Window

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The space between an arch and the horizontal head of a door or window below, often decorated with sculpture

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Tympanum

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A column supporting the tympanum of a doorway at its center

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Trumeau

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A canopied recess for a religious image or icon

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Tabernacle

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The major transverse part of a cruciform church, crossing the main axis at a right angle between the nave and choir

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Transept

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The intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church

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Crossing

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A tall, acutely tapering pyramidal structure surmounting a steeple or tower

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Spire

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A bell tower, usually one near but not attached to the body of a church

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Campanile

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A bulbous, dome like roof terminating in a sharp point, used especially in Russian Orthodox Church architecture to cover a cupola or tower

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Onion Dome

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A tall ornamental structure, usually ending in a spire and surmounting the tower of a church or other public building

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Steeple

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A roofed promenade especially one extending inside or outside along the exterior wall of a building

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Gallery

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A gallery or upper level on a church or hall

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Loft

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An indigenous Scandinavian church of the 12th and 13th centuries, having a timber frame, plank walls, a tiered, steeply pitched roof, and few windows

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Stave Church

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The dwelling of a hermit; more generally, a secluded place of residence or habitation for a religious person or group

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Hermitage

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An arcade especially a blind one, composed of arches resting on alternated supports and overlapping in series where the cross

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Interlacing Arcade, Intersecting Arcade

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A series of arches superimposed on a wall for decoration

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Blind Arcade, Arcature

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A series of arches supported on piers or columns

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Arcade

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Curved or arched like a bow; a term used in describing the arched or vaulted structure of a Romanesque church or gothic cathedral, as distinguished from the trabeated architecture of an Egyptian hypostyle hall or Greek Doric temple

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Arcuate, Arcuated

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A pier or pilaster projecting from a wall as a support for an arch or lintel especially at the termination of an arcade or colonnade

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Respond

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A thickened abacus or supplementary capital set above a column capital to receive the thrust of an arch

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Dosseret, Impost Block

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A slender spire rising from the ridge of a roof especially one above the crossing of a gothic church

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Flèche

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A relatively small, usually foliated ornament terminating the peak of a spire or pinnacle

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Finial

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A projecting ornament, usually in the form of curved foliage, used especially in gothic architecture to decorate the outer angles of pinnacles, spires, and gables

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Crocket

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Crocket

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Gargoyle

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The space about the altar of a church for the clergy and choir, often elevated above the nave and separated from it by a railing or screen

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Chancel

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A chapel endowed for the saying of masses and prayers for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them

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Chantry

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A mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a medieval church

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Labyrinth

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The principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop’s throne

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Cathedral

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A church or other edifice erected over the tomb of a martyr

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Martyrium

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A separately dedicated part of a church for private prayer, meditation, or small religious services

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Chapel

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A circular window, usually of stained glass and decorated with tracery symmetrical above the center

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Rose Window

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Glass colored or stained by having pigments backed onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it while in a molten state

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Stained Glass

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An arcaded story in a church, between the nave arches and clerestory and corresponding to the space between the vaulting and the roof of an ailse

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Triforium

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An underground chamber or vault used as a burial place, especially beneath the main floor of a church

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Crypt

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A crucifix symbolizing the cross on which christ was crucified especially a large one set above the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church

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Rood

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A screen often elaborately adorned and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the chancel or choir from the nave of a medieval church

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Rood Screen

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A small porch used as a chapel for penitents at the west end of some medieval english churches

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Galilee, Galilee Porch

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A courtyard or quadrangle enclosed by a cloister

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Garth, Cloister Garth

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A walk or passage, as along a cloister or behind the parapets of a castle

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Alure, Allure

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A typical Byzantine church plan having nine bays. The center bay is a large square surmounted by a dome; the smaller square corner bays are domed or vaulted; and the rectangular side bays are barrel vaulted

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Cross-in-Square

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A separately dedicated part of a church for

private prayer, meditation, or small religious services.

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Chapel

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The rounded east end of a Gothic cathedral,

including the apse and ambulatory

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Chevet

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The rounded east end of a Gothic cathedral, including the apse and ambulatory

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Ambulatory

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The part of a church occupied by the singers of a choir, usually a part of the chancel

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Choir

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A separate division behind the choir or high altar of a large church

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Retrochoir

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A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, usually located behind the high altar of a cathedral at the extremity of the apse

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Lady chapel

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The main altar of a church

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High Altar

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The part of a church reserved for the officiating clergy

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Presbytery

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An enclosed place especially the land surrounding or beside a cathedral

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Close

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A covered passage, especially one between the transept and chapter house of a cathedral

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Slype, Slip

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The place where the chapter of a cathedral or monastery meets, usually a building attached to or a hall forming part of the cathedral or monastery

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Chapter House

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An assembly of the monks in a monastery, or the members of a religious house or order

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Chapter

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A monastery under the supervision of an abbot, or a convent under the supervision of an abbess, belonging to the highest rank of such institutions

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Abbey

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An atrium or cloister beside a church

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Paradise

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A covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard

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Cloister

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