Church as a building and cult objects. Fragment from a systematic french-russian dictionary of religious terms

This article continues to publish parts of the Systematic French-Russian Dictionary of Religious Terms. It covers the lexical fi eld of church buidings of various purposes and status as well as their architecture, namely the internal and external structures, church-related purpose of their various parts, styles, furniture items and cult objects, both in Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The aim is to cover the relevant vocabulary used in both denominations. The terms for church buildings and objects used in church services or simply employed in religious everyday life partly coincide. However, there are certain buildings, architectural elements, items — both found in the church and employed in church services — that diff er due to the diff erences between the denominations. The notion of church utensils includes items used in various services as well as other items usually contained in a church building, i.e.various reliquaries, retables, icons, light fi ttings, gonfalons, bells, receptacles for alms,etc. To summarise, this is everything which makes up an item in a church and which belongs to Christian routines (beads, lockets, fi gurines, pious paintings, holy oil, etc.). Like other articles in the dictionary, this article has its specifi c logic. It groups items of the same category: light fi ttings, seats, etc. Lexical items pertaining to the Mass (liturgy) are italicised. Some lemmas are accompanied by usage examples.