A Study On The Religious Architectures Under The Influence Of Christian Culture--Churches At Shannxi Area

Along with the dissemination of Christianity in the past 1300 years, the churches at Shaanxi area had undergone a long process with great changes and developments. Especially in lately 200 years, there had been a large number churches been built up by the western ministers in order to disseminate Christianity. On the actual basis provided by these buildings, we can do such a study on the religious architectures under the influence of Christian culture at Shaanxi area.hi addition, owing to the insufficient research work in this area, a study on the churches in Shaanxi not only will fill the gap and promote the development of it, but also will be helpful to other research works related to this field. Therefore, it is necessary and possible to have a systematic and deep study on the course of developments and changes, the present conditions and the architectural styles of churches in Shaanxi.This paper researches into the religious architectures under the influence of Christian culture at Shaanxi Area. This is not only a collection and introduction of materials for the churches in Shaanxi. Further more, on the basis of this ,the paper tried to sum up some specific features and find the reasons of this by the use of the researches on the course of developments and changes of architectural styles of churches in Shaanxi. Such a study will provide some basic research materials for better preserving and researches of the churches in Shaanxi.Firstly, by means of the collections and textual researches to the related materials, this paper tried to make a whole description on the course of developments and changes > the present conditions and the architectural forms of churches in Shaanxi. Secondly, thepaper selected several typical churches as examples to investigate and survey on the spot. By the use of the first-hand and other related materials to analyse and summarize on the developments and changes, the present conditions and the architectural forms of churches in Shaanxi. Then, base on the comparison between Shaanxi and other areas in China, the paper discussed the specific features on the architectural style, material, structure and technique. Following that the paper made a further discussion on the features which reflects influence of foreign culture and draw a conclusion on the influences to the architecture, urban , traditional culture and society at Shaanxi area.Finally, this paper sum up the the course of developments and changes and the features of the churches in Shaanxi. Further more, points out the value and significant of it, discusses on some ideas of further study on the religious architectures under the influence of Christian culture at Shaanxi area.