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Impressive Buildings

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Last night we went for a short walk. It was wonderful to see the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque (above). Even without these two buildings, Istanbul seems to be full of very impressive mosques.

This brings me back to a question I blogged on years ago.

It seems that amongst all religious traditions, Protestant Evangelicals are the least interested in the architecture of the buildings they use for worship. Is this a good thing?

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One thing that I took away from Alistair McGrath's _The Twilight of Atheism_ is that a failure in (segments of) the church to appeal to the imagination through creative expression contributed to the decline of Christian influence in the West, and a similar sterility is presently contributing to the decline in the influence of atheism. Greater appeal to the whole person, through more attention to church architecture, could turn out to be a wise use of resources.

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