Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and multilingual graffiti.

When the century old, 1700-square-foot mural on the 42-foot high, 50-foot semi circle arch, or apse, over the altar in Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Hudson needed restoring, the church pastor knew ...

The most beautiful Byzantine apse in the U. S. was dedicated last Sunday not in a Greek Orthodox church but in Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist. With its glowing gold, blue, red & black ...

After walking us through St. Agnes from narthex to apse and altar, she takes us down to the silver casket in the catacomb into which the church was built, a casket that holds the remains of Agnes, the ...

‘Altar tent’ discovery puts Islamic art at the heart of medieval Christianity . ... Gigante’s study notes that the walls of the apse are studded with nails and brackets, ...

The columns are the focal point within the basilica and are festooned with bees, the symbol of Urban VIII’s Barberini family. Behind the altar is found the Cathedra Petri, the Chair of St. Peter, with ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus Ch… ...