Stave Church

A Scandinavian wooden church with vertical planks forming the walls.

Steeple

 

 

Steeplejack

A specialty contractor who works on church steeples by suspending a Bozeman's chair from the spire while repairing or painting.

Stele

In classical architecture and a slab marking a grave. 2.) A wall area set aside as a memorial.

 

Stepped Arch

 

Stonehenge

 

Store-Front Church

A house of worship constructed from a former retail store.

 

Structural Glued- Laminated Timber

 

Stump Tracery

 

 

Stupa

A buddhist memorial mound, erected to enshrine a relic or to commemorate a sacred site; consists of an artificial mound, raised on a platform and surrounded by an outer ambulatory with a stone railing and four gateways, crowned by multiple sunshade.

Summer

A stone laid on a column and serving as a support for construction as in the construction of an arch.

 

Supercolumniation

The placing of one order of column above another.

 

Suspended Acoustical Ceiling

A non-structural ceiling suspended below the overhead structural slab or from the structural elements of a building and not bearing on the walls.

Sweathouse, Sweat Lodge

 

Swell Box

 

Synagogue

A Jewish house of worship often having facilities for religious instruction. From the Greek, meaning assembly.

Tabernacle

A box or vessel,often highly decorated on a church altar containing the consecrated host and wine of the Eucharist.

Tabernacle

A place of worship distinguished from a church. 2.)The Mormon temple.

Tabernacle Light

 

Tabernacle Work

A highly decorated arcade with canopies and sculpture.