Gereja

Gereja (Jawi: ‏ݢريجا‎code: ms is deprecated ‎ pinjaman Portugis: igrejacode: pt is deprecated ^[1]) ialah tempat penganut Kristian melakukan amalan keagamaan mereka.

Binaan

Bangunan-bangunan gereja sering mempunyai menara yang memuncak daripada suatu tapak petak, bulat atau poligon lain; menara ini lazim terbina dari batuan yang dipasangkan atap.^[2] Menara ini adakalanya menempatkan suatu genta besar yang dibunyikan memberitahu waktu berkumpul untuk tujuan tertentu seperti sembahyang gereja atau upacara khas seperti perkhawinan.

Kawasan tapak asas bangunan ini didasarkan lambang salib^[3] terdiri daripada suatu segi empat panjang diletakkan pintu utama, dua petak sisi serta suatu petak belakang menempatkan suatu altar. Altar ini sering menghadap timur ke arah matahari, di mana orang Kristian mengibaratkan kebangkitan Yesus Kristus laksana terbitnya matahari di Bumi.^[4] Bahagian ini juga boleh mengembung membentuk suatu ruang seakan kubah iaitu "apsis".

Dalaman sebuah gereja di Melaka diisi deretan kerusi panjang untuk jemaah

Gereja-gereja aliran Protestan lebih bertumpu kepada pulpit atau tempat paderi menyampaikan khutbah mereka.

Lihat juga

Rujukan

^ Dalgado, Sebastião Rodolfo (1988). Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. m/s. 176.
^ Curl, James Stevens; Wilson, Susan, penyunting (2015), "spire", A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (dalam bahasa Inggeris) (ed. 3rd), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199674985.001.0001/acref-9780199674985-e-4392, ISBN 978-0-19-967498-5, dicapai pada 27 Mei 2020
^ Petit, John Louis (1841). Remarks on Church Architecture ... (dalam bahasa Inggeris). J. Burns.
^ Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal. Sacred Places: The Significance of the Church Building. The Spirit of the Liturgy. Ignatius Press. Dicapai pada 16 Ogos 2017 – melalui The Institute for Sacred Architecture. Christians look toward the east, the rising sun. This is not a case of Christians worshipping the sun but of the cosmos speaking of Christ. [...] Christians interpret it in terms of Christ, who is the living word, the eternal Logos, and thus the true light of history, who came forth in Bethlehem from the bridal chamber of the Virgin Mother and now pours out his light on all the world. The east supersedes the Jerusalem Temple as a symbol. Christ, represented by the sun, is the place of the Shekinah, the true throne of the living God

[1] Dalgado, Sebastião Rodolfo (1988). Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. m/s. 176.

[:1-2] Curl, James Stevens; Wilson, Susan, penyunting (2015), "spire", A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (dalam bahasa Inggeris) (ed. 3rd), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199674985.001.0001/acref-9780199674985-e-4392, ISBN 978-0-19-967498-5, dicapai pada 27 Mei 2020

[3] Petit, John Louis (1841). Remarks on Church Architecture ... (dalam bahasa Inggeris). J. Burns.

[4] Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal. Sacred Places: The Significance of the Church Building. The Spirit of the Liturgy. Ignatius Press. Dicapai pada 16 Ogos 2017 – melalui The Institute for Sacred Architecture. Christians look toward the east, the rising sun. This is not a case of Christians worshipping the sun but of the cosmos speaking of Christ. [...] Christians interpret it in terms of Christ, who is the living word, the eternal Logos, and thus the true light of history, who came forth in Bethlehem from the bridal chamber of the Virgin Mother and now pours out his light on all the world. The east supersedes the Jerusalem Temple as a symbol. Christ, represented by the sun, is the place of the Shekinah, the true throne of the living God

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