Church Architecture

Saint John the Baptist Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California.

The cathedral is named after the 6th-century Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) cathedral in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), which was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom rather than to a specific saint named Sophia. 

With its sparkling white walls and green and gold cupolas, Saint Sophia’s Cathedral is one of Kiev’s most famous  sights. The beautiful Byzantine-style cathedral was originally built in the 11th century to house the tombs of Kievan rulers. Its walls were decked with fabulous frescoes and mosaics. Almost demolished by the Soviets, the cathedral thankfully still lies in the centre of Kiev.

Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, and of the Archbishop of Indianapolis.  Silas Chatard,  The cathedral parish was established in 1892, and named it after Saint Peter and Saint Paul, two apostles of Christ. 

Salisbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and originally a Catholic church, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England.

The Seville cathedral is the largest gothic church ever constructed. The gothic structure was built in the 15th century to replace the adapted former-mosque which had long served the Christian conquerors of Spain. The Giralda, a 105-meter tall bell tower, is a remnant of the 12th-century mosque. The cathedral is full of ornate stonework and contains a stunning 80 chapels for worship.

Soissons Cathedral ( Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais) is a Gothic basilica church in Soissons, France

The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Bazylika katedralna Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Sosnowcu ) also called Sosnowiec Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Sosnowiec in  Poland.

Saint Bavo's Cathedral, also known as Sint-Baafs Cathedral is a cathedral of the Catholic Church in Ghent, Belgium. The 89-meter-tall Gothic building is named for Saint Bavo of Ghent. It contains the well-known Ghent Altarpiece.

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. 

St. Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore is an Anglican cathedral.  It was built in the neo-Gothic style also called GothicRevival  with elaborate stained-glass windows decorating the apse.  The logo of the cathedral is the St Andrew's Cross. 

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, known in English as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia. The building, now a museum. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible.

The original building contained eight chapels arranged around a ninth, central chapel dedicated to the Intercession; a tenth chapel was erected in 1588 over the grave of the venerated local saint Vasily (Basil).  The cathedral has nine domes (each one corresponding to a different church) and is shaped like the flame of a bonfire rising into the sky.[7] Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in his book Russian Architecture and the West, states that "it is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

As part of the program of state atheism, the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's antireligious campaigns and has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was completely secularized in 1929,  and remains a federal property of the Russian Federation.

The Rektoratskirche St. Karl Borromäus, commonly called the Karlskirche (German for 'St. Charles Church'), is a Baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria. Widely considered the most outstanding baroque church in Vienna, as well as one of the city's greatest buildings, the church is dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, one of the great counter-reformers of the sixteenth century.

The Karlskirche (Church of St. Charles) is the last great work of the eminent Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Completed in 1739, it was built by virtue of a vow made by Emperor Charles VI during a plague. The church is dedicated to the Habsburg emperor's namesake, St. Karl Borromäus. His life and works are depicted on the two giant columns (47 meters tall) next to the entrance portal. The lavish dome frescoes by Johannes Michael Rottmayr cover 1,250 meters squared of magnificent color.

St. Charles Cathedral appropriately honors the patron saint Charles Borromeo, who is known for feeding and ministering to those who suffered from Europe's 16th-century plagues.