A twenty minutes documentary on the building of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Euless Texas

Watch how a byzantine Church can be built in under three minutes

When Saint Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire in the provincial but well positioned city of Byzantium‚ his aspiration was not only to transfer the power of Rome to the East but also to overshadow the eternal city with monuments of architecture that will find no rivalry in the world.

Trying to define the Byzantine style only from an architectural point of view one may sorely miss its deep spiritual meaning. Looking only superficial one might think that this style is stuck in thousand year old formal representation‚ not keeping the pace with all the discoveries in the science and the psychology of the building.