Makanisa ya Bikira Maria

Makanisa ya Bikira Maria ni maabadi ya Kikristo ambapo mama wa Yesu anaheshimiwa kwa namna ya pekee, kwa kuwa ama aliishi huko, ama alitokea ama alifanya muujiza, ama waumini wenyewe walijisikia hamu ya kuonyesha shukrani yao kwake.

Basilika kuu la Bikira Maria jijini Roma, Italia.

Basilika la Aparecida, Brazil, 1955.

Basilika la Guadalupe, linalotembelewa na watu milioni 10 hivi kwa mwaka, kuliko patakatifu pengine popote pa Bikira Maria.

Makanisa ya namna hiyo yalijengwa tangu karne za kwanza za historia ya Ukristo, hasa baada ya Hati ya Milano iliyowapa wananchi uhuru wa dini katika Dola la Roma, na siku hizi zinapatikana katika mabara yote, hata Antaktiki.

Mara nyingi ni patakatifu palipo lengo la hija hasa ya Wakristo wa madhehebu mbalimbali.

Kubwa kuliko yote ni Basilika la Bikira Maria Aparecida, Brazil, ambalo limezidiwa tu na Basilika la Mt. Petro huko Roma-Vatikano.

Tazama pia

• Patakatifu pa Bikira Maria

Marejeo

• Catholic Encyclopedia: "Ecclesiastical Architecture" [1]
• Giovanni Meriana, Guida ai santuari della Liguria (Guide of shrines in Liguria), Sagep Editrice publisher, Genoa (Italy), 1990.
• Bartlett, Kenneth R. (1992). The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company. ISBN|0-669-20900-7 (Paperback).
• Henry A. Millon, mhariri (1994). Italian Renaissance Architecture: from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27921-7. 
• Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, ISBN|0-7506-2267-9
• Arnold Hauser, Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origins of Modern Art, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965, ISBN|0-674-54815-9
• Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen, Jurgen Sorges, Rome and the Vatican City, Konemann, ISBN|3-8290-3109-2
• Janson, H.W., Anthony F. Janson, History of Art, 1997, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. ISBN|0-8109-3442-6
• Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture, Pelican, 1964, ISBN|978-0-14-020109-3
• Ilan Rachum, The Renaissance, an Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1979, Octopus, ISBN|0-7064-0857-8

Marejeo mengine

• Schloeder, Steven (1998). Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican Council through Liturgy and Architecture. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-631-9. 

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