From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

The human quest for transcendence and meaning has not disappeared with modernity, but has adapted to the evolving cultural ...

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism and the Shapiro Writing Center ...

A Danish petition calls for Denmark to buy California from the United States amid Trump's repeated interest in purchasing Greenland.

With more than 4.7 million hashtags, Notre Dame Cathedral in France ranks as the most Instagrammable religious landmark in ...

Seville Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, is a grand architectural masterpiece located ...

Sacred geometry, a term that immediately evokes curiosity, refers to geometric forms and patterns that appear throughout ...

The modern American visionary upended tradition with this Chicago-area church, whose imposing exterior houses an airy, ...

Religious relics typically are objects associated with a saint’s body or belongings and have been kept for historical interest or spiritual reasons. The study at the Art Institute involved ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In a showcase of India’s growing religious tourism, an estimated 450 million people are gathering over six weeks in northern India in a celebration of ritual bathing where two holy rivers meet.

a first-term Trump appointee to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and president of the National Civic Art Society nonprofit, cheered on the president’s push to “Make Federal Architecture Great ...