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This is a list of cathedrals by country, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal denominations, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations commonly referred to as "cathedral", usually having formerly acquired that status.
Small Romanesque churches are plentiful and are generally in relatively unchanged condition. Large churches are rare and are much altered as at Aarhus Cathedral, Lund Cathedral and Roskilde Cathedral. [34] Norway has 25 wooden stave churches from this period, [34] making up all but three of the world's medieval wooden churches.
List of cathedrals in Cape Verde; List of cathedrals in the Central African Republic; List of cathedrals in Chad; List of cathedrals in Chile; List of cathedrals in China; List of cathedrals in Colombia; List of cathedrals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; List of cathedrals in the Republic of the Congo; List of cathedrals in Costa Rica
The Gothic style first appeared in France in the mid-12th century in an Abbey, St Denis Basilica, built by Abbot Suger (1081–1151). The old Basilica was the traditional burial place of Saint Denis, and of the Kings of France, and was also a very popular pilgrimage destination, so much so that pilgrims were sometimes crushed by the crowds.
cathedral; World Heritage Site Bourges Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges: Bourges: Bourges: France: Saint Stephen: cathedral; World Heritage Site Bremen Cathedral St.-Petri-Dom zu Bremen: Protestant: Bremen: Germany: Saint Peter: parish church, formerly cathedral of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen: Church of Our Lady, Bruges ...
Cathedrals are not always large buildings and there are no prerequisites in size, height, or capacity for cathedrals to serve as such beyond those required to be a typical church. A cathedral might be as small as the historic Newport Cathedral, a late medieval parish church declared a cathedral in 1949. That said, size, height, capacity, and ...
Completed around 875, the basilica was the largest Christian cathedral in Europe around 1000 years, [55] with an area of 2,920 square metres (31,400 sq ft). The basilica was built at the place of what is known as the Cross-shaped Mausoleum, an older religious building that is thought by some researchers to be an unknown kind of Bulgar heathen ...
Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque , Romanesque , and Gothic . In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style , marking the end of the medieval period.