Episode 892
Orientation of churches
Sun, 2019-Oct-13 01:07 UTC
Length - 1:44
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The random article for Sunday, 13 October 2019 is Orientation of churches.
Within church architecture, orientation is an arrangement by which the point of main interest in the interior is towards the east (Latin: oriens). The east end is where the altar is placed, often within an apse. The façade and main entrance are accordingly at the west end.
The opposite arrangement, in which the church is entered from the east and the sanctuary is at the other end, is called occidentation. Since the eighth century most churches are oriented. Hence, even in the many churches where the altar end is not actually to the east, terms such as "east end", "west door", "north aisle" are commonly used as if the church were oriented, treating the altar end as the liturgical east.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:07 UTC on Sunday, 13 October 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Orientation of churches on Wikipedia.
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