Sacred Spaces

Episode 2

Mosques: Art and Space

Witnesses to faith, and markers of the power of great Muslim rulers, the mosques tell us, by their diversity, the whole history of Islam, its spirituality incarnated in monuments where sacred architecture reaches the heights of ingenuity and beauty.

Episode 3

Churches: The Quest for Light

From Jerusalem to Mont Saint-Michel, from Florence to Moscow, the Christian monumental style transformed itself at every crucial turn in Christianity's history, including the division of Eastern from Western orthodoxies, the advent of Gothic architecture, the Muslim conquests, and the Renaissance.

Episode 4

Synagogues: Absence and Presence

Come visit some of the great places of worship of the Jewish world. This is an opportunity for an exciting journey into the history of the diaspora, the dispersion of Judaism and the founding of the Jewish state in Israel.