. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . were subsequently used at the services were thenconsecrated. At the openingof the Middle Ages the festivalof Circumcision was observedeight days after Christmas. Twocenturies later this day wasmade New Years Day. During the days precedingthe forty days of Lent the world-ly Christians endeavored to makeup for what they lost by the sub-sequent self-denials in sumpt-uous repasts and comical the Carnevals arose. 26. Church Edifices. Mag-nificent chnrch edificeswere erected. The olderones resembled the build-ings used by the Greek
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . were subsequently used at the services were thenconsecrated. At the openingof the Middle Ages the festivalof Circumcision was observedeight days after Christmas. Twocenturies later this day wasmade New Years Day. During the days precedingthe forty days of Lent the world-ly Christians endeavored to makeup for what they lost by the sub-sequent self-denials in sumpt-uous repasts and comical the Carnevals arose. 26. Church Edifices. Mag-nificent chnrch edificeswere erected. The olderones resembled the build-ings used by the Greeksand Komans as places forcommerce and general as-semblies, and were likethese, called basilicas. After-wards there arose in theEast the Byzantine Cupola style. The most beautiful memorial of this style ofarchitecture is the Church of St. Sophia in Con-stantinople. In front of the Church lay the outer court and in this therewas a well or artificial fountain, the water of which was used forablutions and for making the sign of the cross. Upon entering the. R §4 §% # i #i ## fl Plan of a Basilica. 54 THE PERIOD OF DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT church we first come into a vestibule. Here the penitents and thecatechumens had their places. Further toward the front was thenave or main body of the church. In the basilica this was dividedinto three or five apartments (naves) running lengthwise, separatedfrom each other by rows of pillars. The center nave was thewidest and generally the highest; a wall with window-openings wasresting on each of the rows of pillars. These pillars were connectedby round arches for the support of the walls. Furthest in frontwas the choir or chancel which formed the transept. The approachto this was by means of stairs, as the floor of the choir lay higher
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