Some cosmological aspects of Catholic churches in Lithuania
Volume 10 (2008): Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage, pp. 200–206
Pub. online: 20 December 2008
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
1 November 2007
1 November 2007
Revised
5 March 2008
5 March 2008
Published
20 December 2008
20 December 2008
Abstract
This paper presents a preliminary study of the orientation of Lithuanian Catholic churches and interactions between Christian and pagan cosmologies in Lithuanian church architecture. We can state that the Christianization of Lithuania involved an interaction of these two systems. It is already known that models of time and space in Christian Europe were reflected in the architecture of Lithuanian Catholic churches. But pagan cosmology also influenced Lithuanian Christian architecture.