Allie Stough Sacred and Profane Beauty

Sacred and Profane Beauty P. 196 Churches were originally dwellings: temples likewise. The Japanese Shinto temples developed out of the primitive dwelling hut, the Roman temples from round peasant huts made of straw. They became houses which belonged only to God, later to fall to the status of places for prayer and instruction such as synagogue or Japanese Zen temple, which are really schools. Churches were first used as a means of housing then it was to sacred to live in the house of God. Earlier people would go to school and church in the same place. It was the way of going to school for children. Now they are just places of prayer and instruction.