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PRINCIPLES OF ORTHODOX CHURCH ARCHITECTURE by Aidan Hart

This article aims to identify the timeless principles that underly traditional Orthodox churches, in the hope that these will help develop an indigenous Orthodox architecture in non-Orthodox countries. This is a paper given in 2003 at the foundation of the contemporary Orthodox Church Architecture Group, and has also been published in the online journal of Hexaemeron (http://www.hexaemeron.org/htms/newsletter_ss07_hart.htm).
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