PraiseBuildings.com: Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Architecture

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Tablet

A regularly shaped panel often bearing an inscription or image.

Tempera Paint

A rapidly drying paint consisting of egg white (album) gym, water and pigment typically used in painting murals.

Temple

An edifice dedicated to the service of a deity or deities and connected with a system of worship. 2. A synagogue. 3. An edifice erected as a place of public worship- especially a Protestant church.

Terra-Cotta

Hard, unglazed fired clay used for ornamental roof tile.

Tessellated

To form into a mosaic patterns by using small squares of stone or glass.

Tetrapod

In the Byzantine Rite, tetrapod is a four legged table found at the front of the nave and is furnished with a cross, candles, and an icon that is used for veneration by the faithful. The sacraments of Baptism and Marriage, as well as several services are performed there.

Tetrastyle

Theater

A building, room or other structure for the presentation of plays, concerns, lectures, films, speeches and worship services.

Theater in the Round

Theatre Seating

Thrust

Tien

A basic Chinese structure used for religious buildings which consists of a platform supporting a structural wooden framework of a least four columns and various support beams. This structure features roof trusses which are, upward-curving, high pitched,and clad with a tiled roof. The interior partitions are nonbearing screen walls.

Tjandi

A hindu sepulchral monument, prevalent in Java from the 8th to 14th century consisting of a square base, a cellar-like temple and a prominent pyramidal roof structure.

Torana

A monumental and richly decorated gateway in the enclosure of a Buddhist stupa in Indian architecture.

Tracery

The curvilinear openwork shapes of stone or wood creating a pattern within the upper part of a Gothic window, or an opening of similar character, in the form of mullions which are usually so treated as to be ornamental.