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Ezetu Ebiumene Itontei

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  A Comparative Analysis of Acoustic Material and Effects on Church Auditoriums: Old and New Churches in Nigeria
  Author(s): Ezetu Ebiumene Itontei and Halil Zafer Alibaba* Ezetu Ebiumene Itontei and Halil Zafer Alibaba*
  
  Acoustics is a developing science in Nigeria like elsewhere in the world. However, it is fast gaining popularity as the country is faced with acoustical challenges from industries, road traffic, power generating sets, churches etc, hence the need to proffer solution to the menace. The church auditorium is a space meant for worship, listening and preaching the word of God. This makes it a spiritual environment, that requires serenity to enable the audience hear and understand what is being preached from the alter (stage). A sermon preached in the auditorium should be reasonably loud and clear. It therefore, necessary for an auditorium to be acoustically equipped to ensure clarity of sound within it as failure to do so could promote noise, that can impede hearing. Noise such as echo and reverberation can cause blurring on a speech within a church auditorium, thereby creating difficultie.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/0976-4860.1000153

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