Explore: Templar Architecture

their military mission and extensive financial resources, the Knights Templar funded a large number of building projects around Europe and the Holy Land

Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the most important

Holy Sepulchre upon which it was based soon became the architectural model for Round Templar churches across Europe. The round church is 55 feet (17 m)

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed

former Catholic convent in Tomar, Portugal. Originally a 12th-century Templar stronghold, when the order was dissolved in the 14th century the Portuguese

best known as the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller The Last Templar. Raymond Khoury was born in Lebanon but spent his teenage years in Rye

of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem and built by the Knights Templar. As numbers of clergy increased, the small apse which contained the altar

Knights Templar who continued their operations from their headquarters in Tomar, Santarém Portugal. Contrary to the belief that the Templar Order was

London's architectural heritage consists of buildings from a wide variety of styles and historical periods. London's distinctive architectural eclecticism

built by the Templars in the Holy Land. It has a single nave with groin-vaulted ceiling. The square apse, contain typical Templar architectural motifs such