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Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
The cathedral often had its origins in a monastic foundation and was a place of worship for members of a holy order who said the mass privately at a number of small chapels within the cathedral. The cathedral often became a place of worship and burial for wealthy local patrons.
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Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square St. Andrew of Patras Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Patras, Greece The Postmodern Church of the Holy Spirit in Bialystok is the largest Orthodox house of worship in all of Poland. In the Russian language (similar to other East Slavic languages) a general-purpose word for "church" is tserkov ...
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The north quire aisle has a stone screen by R. C. Hussey and an iron gate dated 1558 that came from Guadalajara. At the east end of the aisle is the chapel of St Werburgh which has a vault of two bays, [54] and an east window depicting the Nativity by Michael O'Connor, dated 1857. Other stained glass windows in the north aisle are by William ...
St. Patrick's Cathedral was described by CNN in 2020 as being an "essential part of New York City's architectural heritage". [205] The cathedral serves as the seat for the Archdiocese of New York and as a parish church for the archdiocese within Manhattan. [206] Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, over five million people visited the cathedral each ...
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