The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated by the 16th-century Cretan painter, Theophanes the Monk.
Currently, a Nave is on display at the Daros Foundation in Zurich, and walking through it is like floating: you lose your bearings and move in slow motion, as though doing a moon walk.
In the long halls of Early Christian basilicas, particularly those with rows of columns dividing a nave from side aisles, as in the fifth-century Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, narration was primarily on the interior.
The beat of drums reaches a crescendo as Beth and Teach run down what was once the church's nave and jump over a broomstick.
The church is seeking permission to replace most of them with chairs to create a flexible nave space.
Some Baroque painters eventually achieved a bit of revenge by devising illusionistic frescoes that appear to demolish nave vaults and domes to reveal the divine occupants of a sunlit heaven sitting on or floating around clouds.
The nave of the cathedral will be turned into a cinema for the first showing outside of London of Resistance, which stars Michael Sheen.
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The parochial church council said the total cost of repairs meant the project would focus on reorganising the internal layout of the nave, including removable seating, rather than the building of a new cloister.
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On weekends, there are dance and music performances and films -- this month, catch "La Nave de los Monstruos" ("The Monsters' Ship"), a Mexican sci-fi classic, with music by postclassical string quartet Ethel.
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