Orthodox temple

For the faithful, orthodox church is a place where religious worship and other religious processes.
The earliest followers of the Christian religion in the early use for their ceremonial Jerusalem Temple. Then, when the Jerusalem temple turned into ruins, the first Christians began to use their home or the Synagogue rites nobles and wealthy Jews. In an era of harassment of the Christian faith on the part of the official Rome, Christians used the old mines and caves.

Christians have been indulgence in the town of 313, with the recognition of Christianity at the official level. Since then, the earlier pagan temples began to remodel for the needs of the Christian church.

A special role in the fate of Christianity in Jerusalem has played a mother of Constantine, built the house the Holy Sepulcher, which went into the books on architecture and design of sacred buildings for many centuries later. Then came the famous St. Sophia Cathedral, which was then copied to the centers of Orthodoxy in Kiev and Sofia.

The two cathedral formed the so-called canonical tradition of erecting places of worship: the Cathedral was apparently to remind or cross or a circle (symbol of faith in the Lord) (eternal symbol). Next housed in the cathedral church-porch, which was used for those who want pokrestitsya and willing to repent. Altar church separated from the rest of the iconostasis.

The first Orthodox churches in the territory of Russia are usually built of white stone. The main temples built in Russia from the tree and were small in size.

Architects provide the following types of Orthodox churches: one dome, three dome, five dome, seven dome, thirteen dome (Christ and the 12 apostles). The main form of a dome cross or a circle.