Architecture of your nation

Jorsalfar, the white church is the monastery church of Varnhem. You can see the remnantes of the monastery itself to the left.

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri just how do you believe it would have have been teleported to Norway? Maybe by mongols!

Who arrived 2-300 years after the churches was built?

Thing is, stave building as a technology was common in Scandinavia, and you can follow the development through the centuries. There are no indications of foreign influences (nothing similar in the neighbouring lands, for example).
What is most funny with the claim is that the building technique (ie hte way it is constructed, the engineering) is quite different from the Chinese. I assume you mean visual appearance anyway - but no Norwegian had been even near China, and vice versa.

In their homeland in Central Asia, Turks lived in dome-like tents appropriate to their natural surroundings, and they were nomads. These tents later influenced Turkish architecture and ornamental arts. The architecture of medreses, mosques and other Islamic buildings changed in Islamic world. And all the Islamic architecture was influenced with new Turkish power and rule over all Muslims. Turks became the leader of Islamic world with the Seljuks, and then the Ottomans. So there appeared a vommon Islamic architecturei influenced by nomadic Turkish tents and art, old middle eastern architecture, Arabic mosques and Persian architecture and art. But still, you can see the differences btw Arabic mosques and Turkish ones. The Turkish ones have circular top shapes, and a sharp shape on the middle of the roof. It is a main characteristc structure of old Turkish architecture. The nomadic tents were circular and similar to todays mosque structures of Turks, except they were smaller...

Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul

An example of contemporary architectural design - ANKARA

I think the stave churches look alot nicer, the stone cathedrals have no charm. But aaaaight

Indeed, someone should attempt a neo-stave style or something, bring the form to stone or something.

And Oguzoglu. Is that mosque byzantine, or turkish? Anyway it was very pretty

Turkish, but it really depends on how you see it - the Turkish architecture was heavily influenced by the Roman. St Sofia is completely Roman (not a mix, though Turks added the minarets) and in much it served as a model for Suleimaniye as well as the Blue mosque posted above.

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Like I said, I don't think stave churches look Chinese, but I found the stave churches have some resemblance with Thai temples.

But Thai temples look Chinese, don't they?

Turkish, but it really depends on how you see it - the Turkish architecture was heavily influenced by the Roman. St Sofia is completely Roman (not a mix, though Turks added the minarets) and in much it served as a model for Suleimaniye as well as the Blue mosque posted above.

About stave church, it also really depends on how you see it, when I say they look Chinese, it doesn't mean that some Chinse came there and built those churches, but I mean it is just possibe that they have been inspired by eastern Architecture.

In their homeland in Central Asia, Turks lived in dome-like tents appropriate to their natural surroundings, and they were nomads. These tents later influenced Turkish architecture and ornamental arts. The architecture of medreses, mosques and other Islamic buildings changed in Islamic world.

I agree but just about Turbes not Mosques and Madrasas, Persians and Romans had built Domes earlier than building tents by Turks!

T�rbe (Turkish: "tomb-tower"), Persian GONBAD, form of mausoleum architecture developed by and popular among the Seljuq Turks in Iran (mid-11th to 13th century) and later carried by them into Iraq and Anatolia.

Mausoleum of Safi od-Din, founder of Safavid dynasty:

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Originally posted by Styrbiorn Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri About stave church, it also really depends on how you see it, when I say they look Chinese, it doesn't mean that some Chinse came there and built those churches, but I mean it is just possibe that they have been inspired by eastern Architecture. I can't follow your line of thought. The stave churches had absolutely nothing to with Chinese architecture (no, there is no chance whatsoever they were inspired by eastern architecture), whereas the Ottoman mosques were inspired by the Hagia Sofia, and had many Roman architectoral elements in them. edit: that's what I meant: The mosques are of course Turkish, but they do contain some Roman architecte directly inherited from them. I agree but just about Turbes not Mosques and Madrasas, Persians and Romans had built Domes earlier than building tents by Turks! That's correct, the Turks got the domes from the people they conquered.

No. Turks had domelike tents since ancient times of nomadic lifestyle...

the stavechurches were built before the mongols came to europe. And they themselves never came to Norway.

 

 I think it was a joke and you didn't quite get it. The mongols were nomads, they didn't have any form of architecture.

Here in little ole Spokane we have a lot of neo classical or Greek Revival style architecutre plus...


Spokane county courthouse


the Spokesman Review building



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St John's church Catholic



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St. John�s Episcopal church in Spokane,
River front park- Expo 1974 site and courthouse

http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/images/cutter06.jpg
Campbell house


Masonic Temple

http://www.masonrypromotion.com/gallery/spokane-club-sm.jpg
Spokane Club
Old Carnegie Library -neo classical
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Gonzaga University Catholic

Greek Orthodox Church


view of downtown Spokane- I live in a nearby town called Cheney

Originally posted by Atourian Originally posted by Oguzoglu Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul Wasn't that previously not a mosque?

It's a mosque all right, your thinking of the St/Hagia Sophia - which is a museum nowadays.

Fact - Mimar Sinan, the famous architect that designed many of the Mosques in Istanbul, was an Armenian. It is even proven in the Ottoman archives.

There was also Sarkis Balyan, who built the Dolmabahce palace.