Religion
The Chapel is the spiritual "Heart of the Campus" for this university.
What is Seton Hall University?
The soaring verticality of the Chapel visually pulls the viewer's gaze toward this.
What is heaven?
This concept is key to the Chapel, using recognizable human forms to tell stories.
What is Figuration?
This organic, sun-dried earth is the main building material for the Mosques.
What is banco (or earthen architecture)?
This is the country you can find the great Timbuktu Mosques.
What is Mali
This tradition follows the Transcendental principle of Tawhid.
What is Islam?
This building style is characterized by massive, monolithic, and visually light-absorbing shapes.
What is Sudano-Sahelian?
Islamic art express through this, since God is beyond human comprehension.
What is abstraction?
The Chapel's interior uses this expensive, permanent metal to suggest opulence.
What is gold leaf?
The Immaculate conception of the Chapel at Seton Hall University is known as..
What is "The heart of the campus" ?
The Chapel's visual narratives served this purpose, teaching the faithful.
What is a didactic purpose?
The Chapel is designed in this revival style.
What is Gothic Revival?
This is the term for the absolute oneness and formlessness of God in Islam.
What is Tawhid?
The Mosques' visible wooden beams, called toron, serve as points for this crucial yearly activity.
What is annual replastering?
This is the minimum number of Great Mosques of Timbuktu the presentation focuses on.
What is three (Djingareyber, Sankore, and Sidi Yahia)?
The Mosques are outstanding examples of traditional earthen architecture from this region.
What is traditional earthen architecture?
The Mosques are built in this specific style, common to West Africa.
What is Sudano-Sahelian?
The Chapel uses figurative art to demonstrate this theological principle.
What is the Incarnational principle?
The Chapel uses dense, vertical stone mass, whereas the Mosques highlight their connection to this.
What is the local landscape?
The Mosques' required annual communal replastering makes the building itself considered this.
What is an act of faith?
The Incarnational principle emphasizes this, making the divine emotionally immediate
What is accessibility or emotional immediacy?
This is the architectural concept that the Chapel emphasizes, suggesting .....
What is eternal, unchanging permanence?
The Mosques' abstract patterns guide the mind beyond form, illustrating this principle.
What is the Transcendental principle?
This is the purpose the costly materials in the Chapel serve...
What is to suggest an enduring divine presence?
Both the Chapel and the Mosques ultimately translate these into observable structures that sustain communities.
What are abstract theological ideas?