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>ie height of ceiling in the main worship area That's not what a nave is. "Nave" quite literally means "boat". It refers to the elongated, cage-like, spined st
by Bayart 5y ago
>ie height of ceiling in the main worship area
That's not what a nave is. "Nave" quite literally means "boat". It refers to the elongated, cage-like, spined structure of basilical and later on Latin cross plans.
Saint Sophia can't have the highest nave because it doesn't have one to begin with, it has a dome. They're very different structures.
- srcreigh 5y agoThe word nave is in fact used for other things than Western church architecture. But, if you want to keep records for the highest naves and define them to be only Western naves, you win :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_church_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_church_archit...