Domes

Significant domed buildings

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Domes':

  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns Mycenae, Treasury of Atreus - 14.6m 1300 BC
  • Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn Beehive tombs
  • Centennial Hall 65m Reinforced concrete. Largest dome in world between 1913-30
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Octagonal central dome
  • El Escurial
  • Fasil Ghebbi Castle has egg-shaped domed roof
  • Florence Santa Maria del fiore 42/5m - Europe's 1st double dome 1436
  • Istanbul 31.5m. Worlds 1st "Pendentive dome" AD 543
  • Kremlin and Red Square St. Basil Cathedral's colurful domes and Golden domes inside Kremlin
  • Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 18.2m, largestever built in Central Asia 1389
  • Monticello
  • Nubian Monuments The Concrete Dome of the Reconstructed Temples
  • Old City of Jerusalem Dome of the Rock- 20.37m AD 691
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Les Invalides
  • Rome Pantheon - 43.4m Unreinforced concrete - Largest dome in world between 128-1881
  • Skellig Michael Domed houses
  • Soltaniyeh Mausoleum of Il-khan Öljeitü or Dome of Soltaniyeh
  • Taj Mahal White marble dome
  • The trulli of Alberobello Domed houses
  • Valetta Our Lady's of the Carmel Church
  • Vatican City St Peter's Basilica - 42.3m 1593