August 28, 2011
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Ode to an Ideal Church Building

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View from the high altar looking toward the east (as Mass ad orientem would be said). Note the Gospel ambo is to the south (right), so as to be situated to the bishop’s right hand. The Gospel would have been read, then, facing left, which is north. The columns flanking the nave are ancient spolia, only the capitals having been refashioned by Fontana.

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