A private chapel constructed around 230 AD, which is considered by experts to be the earliest house of prayer. According to the Museum of the Bible, the impressive mosaic (a type of art form where ...

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

Designed by Studio Nishita Kamdar, this South Mumbai apartment of a young collector is peppered with paintings and sculptures ...

The bright orange cover features a montage of a hornbill bird, a coconut tree, a Malay stilted house, and a sampan moored ... town of Bachok echoing with prayer calls; a dead longhouse in Senah ...

Father Vachetta decided to give them the gift of a novena--a prayer going deep into the spirit of Advent ... Behold the God-Man of the house of David will come to sit upon the royal throne and you ...

When Mary Tobin was a cadet at West Point from 1999 to 2003, she and her friends — many of them Black, many of them athletes ...

A mosaic is an art form in which small pieces ... It appears in the opening line of mass prayer — “Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine” — meaning “Grant them eternal rest, O Lord.” ...

The Virgin and Child with Angels by a Fountain, Bernaert Van Orley (1492-1541) There are basically two traditions of the Annunciation iconography: one situating it at a cistern or fountain, the other ...

Dar El Bacha (the House of the Pasha ... When visiting the palace don’t miss the Koutoubia’s original minbar (prayer pulpit), which was exquisitely fashioned by Cordoban artist, Aziz.

When Franciscan archaeologists excavated beneath the structure in 1968, they discovered that it had been built on the remains of a first-century house ... synagogue—and a mosaic floor.

Over the next year, Peter Brandes’ health deteriorated but he kept working — designing and making prints for three art books ...

The claim of Jesus’ followers that their Master was the sole authentic interpreter of Mosaic Law was not unusual ... including the need to lock oneself in one’s house on Good Friday against marauding ...