ARCHITECTURE IN RELIGIONS

I am going to start a new series in this blog that would be about how mathematics is used in architecture of different religions. I am going to talk about 2 of them: Catholic and Islamic. I will talk about how their architecture is used on their temples, the meaning that some of those forms of architecture have on the religion, how they use geometry... I will talk about some of the geometric shapes used, for example: decagons, pentagons, rhombus.. for the decorations of the Mezquitas (Islamic temples) or the Catholic temples. I will also mention the importance of these on the roofs, windows and floors on the temples. At the end of this "series" we will hopefully be able to make a link between the two kinds of architecture, and to identify how are they different to each other. Here I leave 2 videos to introduce you to both architecture. Please pay particular attention to the patterns and the forms used for the decorations of the temples. 

A video that shows pictures of Islamic temples.

An inside look at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church.