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A full-color guidebook to historically and architecturally important places of worship in New Haven

Founded originally for the exercise of religious practice, the New Haven Colony has evolved, thanks to the immigrants who have settled there, into a richly textured, multiethnic tapestry of living worship traditions. Moreover, we now know that the urban plan of New Haven was laid out according to a biblical model as a holy metropolis. Temples in the Sacred City offers a tour of local and regional synagogues and churches, along with the chapels at Yale. The book is designed to appeal to a broad audience of residents, newcomers, and visitors to the region, as well as to students of religious studies and multicultural religious expression.

LEE M. SMITH, a liturgical and American religious historian and an American Baptist minister, lives in Atlanta, Georgia. JAIME LARA is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University. His most recent book is Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico (2008). The noted photographer ROBERT A. LIZAK is a longtime resident of New Haven.

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