Looking for sources of Mediaeval church architecture that shows and\or explains hard to find architectural church additions?
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The southern Indian state of Kerala has a good number of churches built in the Middle Ages by the Portuguese. Those churches own a lot of land, much of which had been received as gifts from the then rulers. As such, the churches were able to build small extensions in the form of a cross, mostly made of concrete, accompanied by a chapel called Kappela (the word tracing its origin to Portuguese). These constructions, locally called 'Kurishadi' literally meaning 'by the cross' were done on three sides of the Church that is west, south and north, at a distance of say, half a mile, from the church. The chapels accompanying the cross would not host the Holy Eucharist and would be used for devotions like rosary and novena. These extended constructions of the church are so popular that they have become landmarks with the same name (Please find more information on Wikipedia Kurishadi/ Kappela and Christianity in Kerala: Church Architecture)
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