ABSTRACT
I was living in Jerusalem when I ended the first part of my research on synagogues and churches. I had been gathering evidence from synagogues and churches founded before 800 Ad. I concluded that throughout this period all these buildings were designed by the same process. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, because these two groups designed their buildings by interpreting their Holy Scriptures, this would separate Jews and Christians from other religions. Secondly the educated elite had reason to believe, through Plato and Philo, that the scriptural numbers of the design might reveal heavenly mysteries.
