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1436
Florence Cathedral, Italy
The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore is a church of Florence in Italy. It began in 1296 and completed in 1436. It was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio. It's build as a basilica, having a wide central nave of four square bays, with an aisle on either side. The chancel and transepts are of identical polygonal plan, separated by two smaller polygonal chapels. The whole plan forms a Latin cross. The nave and aisles are separated by wide pointed Gothic arches resting on composite piers. -
1561
Saint Basil's Cathedral
Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. It was designed in 1561. Because the church has no analogues, in preceding, contemporary, or later architecture of Muscovy and Byzantine cultural tradition in general,[12] the sources that inspired Barma and Postnik are disputed. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc rejected European roots for the cathedral; according to him, its corbel arches were Byzantine, and ultimately Asian -
Taj Mahal
is an ivory-white marble mausoleum in the city Agra. It was commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1632. It is to be built in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, a Persian princess who died giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. It is a large, white marble structure standing on a square plinth and consists of a symmetrical building with an iwan (an arch-shaped doorway) topped by a large dome and finial. -
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia. It's is the tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world. It was constructed in 1883 but destroyed in 1937 due to War. The inner sanctum of the church (naos) was ringed by a two-floor gallery, its walls inlaid with rare sorts of marble, granite, and other stones. The ground floor of the gallery was a memorial dedicated to the Russian victory over Napoleon. The second floor of the gallery was occupied by church choirs.
