Stained Glass In The Worship Space

One medium of art that has been almost exclusively associated with Christian churches is that of stained glass. Some basic considerations regarding stained glass are mentioned here. Light. In the beginning God created light. Since that time, it has been a source of fascination. Such fascination has been important in the art forms of Christian places, so much so that a prime criterion for judging the success of a religious building has been the way in which light enters the spaces. The craft of the glass maker thus has its important place. Glass. We marvel at the wonderful ways stained glass plays with light. Glass is thought to have been invented by accident; Phoenician sailors found glass-like remains in the embers of their beach fires over five thousand years ago. Glass was long considered a precious material, used in molded vases, mosaic tile, beads, and imitations of gems. Glass was not used for glazing windows until 1500 years ago, and the earliest evidence of such window glas…