ABSTRACT
The designer of a synagogue aimed to make the building appropriate, spiritually and practically, for morning and evening prayer. The aim of church design was the Eucharist. This chapter will examine the first part of the Eucharist, which has inherited a great deal from the synagogue. This is reflected in the similar architecture of churches and synagogues. But Maximus the Confessor equated this section of the Eucharist with the sensible realm, and the second part to the intellectual world. 1 The building may stand for one thing in the first part of the service and quite another in the second.
