The Cologne Cathedral is one of the largest Gothic churches in Northern Europe and its two huge spires give it the largest façade of any church in the world.

Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. The project was…

A Brief Introduction to Gothic Architecture:

An abandoned English Gothic style church in Michigan.

How could we abandon something like this?

Cathedral Church of St. John
Gothic architecture ' Hertogenbosch - Netherlands

German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build cathedrals. He replied:

“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.”

Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to complete.…

This was built during what they told you were the Dark Ages.

The 800-year-old Sainte-Chapelle is the Gothic jewel of Paris - one of the greatest achievements of medieval architecture and some of the finest stained glass anywhere in the world.

There are 1,113 glass panels…

Gothic Quarter, Barcelona
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Ghent shrouded in fog resembles a Gothic dream.

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The fexibility of 15th century gothic armor

The great Gothic cathedrals remind us what is possible when we reach for the heavens through architecture.

These are the 15 finest examples in Europe 🧵

The Cologne Cathedral is a stunning Gothic masterpiece. Its construction took over six centuries.

Imagine if we never stopped building like this.

America was supposed to be Gothic.

'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A thread of wonders of Gothic architecture 🧵

1. Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Normandy, France, 1523 (Gothic / Romanesque)

Those who say that America doesn't have magnificent cathedrals are simply wrong.

St. Patrick's Cathedral - a spectacular Gothic sanctuary in the heart of New York City. Completed in 1878, it's the largest Catholic cathedral in the US, and a symbol of the triumph of religious…

The Gothic.

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