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Dear my fellow Muslim acquaintance, Coming back from the south, I feel that Christianity and Islam culture

share much common ground. Back when I was in Islam, I learn that your culture;

Every large town or city had its Gothic cathedral, whose towers topped the skyline as a manifest symbol of the towering social and cultural role of Christianity in blending the secular and the sacred. No longer needed to rely on heavy solid walls for stability, the Gothic
churches were able to incorporate brilliant stained glass windows. These windows, like the Romanesque sculptures, were meant to bring biblical images to life for those who could not understand the liturgy itself. The colored glass also created a serene and other-worldly feeling in the church. This was a tangible way of imaging what the spirit or light of God would be like, and created a heavenly environment on earth. These brings out the secular and spiritual ideas that was popular during that period

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