Glossary · B
Baptistery
Also called baptistry
A separate building, or a room, for baptism, usually centrally planned around a font, often octagonal, the number eight standing for resurrection and new life.
See also: Martyrium
Rules that use the word
Eight sides for the baptistery. Build the baptistery, and its font, with eight sides, because the eighth day, the day of the resurrection, is the day into which the baptised are born.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Byzantium and the Early Church, Renaissance and Baroque.
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