Houses of Worship: An Identification Guide to the History and Styles of American Religious Architecture

By Jeffery W. Howe

Book Overview

A guidebook to the architectural styles of American churches and temples, Houses of Worship is highly illustrated with over 1000 color photographs and explanatory line drawings. A survey of American... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571459707
• ISBN13: 9781571459701
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 1.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding survey of American religious architecture

This is an outstanding book, but it doesn't quite live up to its title. You can't use it as an identification guide to the style of American religious structures, unless you had absolutely no knowledge of what, for example, gothic revival is. If that's the case, you're probably not thinking of buying this book. But, that said, it is an excellent survey of the best churches and other religious structures in the country. I've read, I believe, all the similar books and this is clearly the best. Perhaps that means simply that I agree with his choices, but he looks at a more thorough cross-section of such buildings than anyone else has. His architectural insights are not profound, but the photography is excellent and the buildings speak for themselves. When I bought this I thought I was simply keeping my collection complete, but it has filled a gap that I didn't realize I had.