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The earliest Christian churches in Rome were all built with the entrance to the east, like the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. [15] Only in the 8th or 9th century did Rome accept the orientation that had become obligatory in the Byzantine Empire and was also generally adopted in the Frankish Empire and elsewhere in northern Europe.
A schematic plan showing the elements and orientation that are common to many churches. Liturgical east and west is a concept in the orientation of churches.It refers to the fact that the end of a church which has the altar, for symbolic religious reasons, is traditionally on the east side of the church (to the right in a diagram).
A 15th-century bishop celebrates Mass ad orientem, facing in the same direction as the people Tridentine Mass, celebrated regularly ad orientem. Ad orientem, meaning "to the east" in Ecclesiastical Latin, is a phrase used to describe the eastward orientation of Christian prayer and Christian worship, [1] [2] comprising the preposition ad (toward) and oriens (rising, sunrise, east), participle ...
Sides A, B, X and Y are names for theological positions on homosexuality, which are used by some Christian churches and communities.In general, those who affirm same-sex marriage as valid fall under "Side A," [1] while those who do not affirm it fall under "Side B," "Side X," or "Side Y". [2]
Churches were generally built with an east–west axis. In the earliest churches in Rome the altar stood at the west end and the priest stood at the western side of the altar facing east and facing the people and the doors of the church. Examples are the Constantinian St. Peter's Basilica and the original Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the ...
In actual practice throughout the Roman Catholic Church, popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests, by their constant examples since the Novus Ordo form of the Roman Missal was initially promulgated, have been nearly unanimous in adopting versus populum as the defining orientation for the priest during the Mass.
Orientation (housing), the position of a building with respect to the sun, a concept in building design; Orientation of churches, the architectural feature of facing ("orienting"), churches towards the east (Latin: oriens) Coin orientation, a description of the orientation of opposite faces of a coin with respect to one another
Extrinsic religious orientation is a method of using religion to achieve non-religious goals, essentially viewing religion as a means to an end. [4] It is used by people who go to religious gatherings and claim certain religious ideologies to establish or maintain social networks while minimally adhering to the teachings of the religion.