Christopher Howse

God’s many mansions: a guide to the world’s greatest churches

Allan Doig includes Hagia Sophia, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the mosque-cathedral of Cordoba among 12 examples of magnificent church architecture

Christian and Moorish architecture combine in Cordoba’s Cathedral-Mosque. Credit: Alamy
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  • A History of the Church Through its Buildings

    Allan Doig

    Oxford, pp. 376, £30

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