Domes
Significant domed buildings
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aachen Cathedral | domed octagon design | |
| Bagerhat | has nearly sixty big domes | |
| Bahá’i Holy Places | Golden dome in Haifa | |
| Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn | Beehive tombs | |
| Boyana Church | "The oldest Boyana Church, the so-called East or First Church, was designed and used as a chapel. It had a typical Greek cross plan with a dome, and a concealed internal cross without free-standing support and without a narthex." | |
| Centennial Hall | 65m Reinforced concrete. Largest dome in world between 1913-30 | |
| Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus | Octagonal central dome | |
| Church of Atlántida | The baptistery is an underground construction covered by a spherical dome of reinforced brick. On the top of the dome a cylindrical skylight lets the natural light fall on the baptismal font. (AB Ev) | |
| El Escurial | ||
| Fasil Ghebbi | Castle has egg-shaped domed roof | |
| Florence | Santa Maria del fiore 42/5m - Europe's 1st double dome 1436 | |
| Genbaku Dome | ||
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | The dome of 1st Class Establishment in Vichy | |
| Hospicio Cabañas | dome of the chapel | |
| Humayun's Tomb | ||
| Istanbul | 31.5m. Worlds 1st "Pendentive dome" AD 543 | |
| Karlskrona | Trinity Church includes a domed rotunda (wiki) | |
| Kasbah of Algiers | Several of the mosques in the Kasbah, like the Djamaa el Djedid and the Ketchaoua Mosque, have domes. | |
| Kizhi Pogost | the 22-domed Transfiguration Church | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | St. Basil Cathedral's colurful domes and Golden domes inside Kremlin | |
| Masjed-e Jâme' | two extraordinary domes (AB ev) | |
| Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi | 18.2m, largestever built in Central Asia 1389 | |
| Medieval Monuments in Kosovo | Gracanica is a five-dome building | |
| Mexico City and Xochimilco | The following is a list of the most important domes in the historic centre. Examples: • Palacio de Bellas Artes: by architect Ádamo Boari, at Juárez av. S/N. • Church and fmr. convent of San Francisco: At Francisco I. Madero #7. • Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de la Virgen Maria: neoclassical dome. At Plaza de la Constitución S/N. • La Profesa, Oratory of San Felipe Neri: at Isabel La Católica 21. Concluded in neoclassical style by Manuel Tolsá. • Temple and fmr. convent of the Carmen: at República de Nicaragua S/N. • Church of Santo Domingo: Belisario Rodríguez S/N. • Church of Santa Teresa la Antigua: above Capilla del Cristo. At Licenciado Verdad 8. • Church and Convent of Jesús María: at Jesús María 39. • Church of San Lorenzo Diácono y Mártir: at Belisario Domínguez 28. • Church of the Inmaculada Concepción: at Belisario Domínguez 3. • Temple and fmr. convent of Santa Inés: at Moneda 26. • Church of Nuestra Señora de Loreto: at San Ildefonso 80. • Church of San Bernardo: at 20 de noviembre 33. • Fmr. Temple of San Agustín: at República de El Salvador 76. • Palacio de la Autonomía de la UNAM: at Primo de Verdad 2. | |
| Monticello | ||
| Mycenae and Tiryns | Mycenae, Treasury of Atreus - 14.6m 1300 BC | |
| 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 | |
| Petäjävesi Old Church | octagonal dome | |
| Rome | Pantheon - 43.4m Unreinforced concrete - Largest dome in world between 128-1881 | |
| Royal Exhibition Building | ||
| Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil | Several of the tombs | |
| Salzburg | Central dome of the Cathedral | |
| Sanchi | Great Stupa | |
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | New Cathedral has 3 blue domes | |
| Sassanid Archaeological Landscape | Sarvestan Palace among others | |
| Sceilg Mhichíl | Domed houses | |
| Selimiye Mosque | single great dome | |
| Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple | Seokguram Grotto - "The basic layout consists of a rectangular antechamber, a main rotunda, and a corridor connecting the two. This is an unprecedented construction technique by which a domed ceiling for the main rotunda and an entrance corridor were created with more than 360 stone slabs." - AB Document | |
| Soltaniyeh | Mausoleum of Il-khan Öljeitü or Dome of Soltaniyeh | |
| St. Petersburg | St. Isaac's Cathedral, built 1842, with a cast iron dome nearly 26 meters wide. | |
| Studley Royal Park | St. Mary's Church has an inner dome | |
| Taj Mahal | White marble dome | |
| The trulli of Alberobello | Domed houses | |
| Thessalonika | Rotunda | |
| Tombs of Buganda Kings | Muzibu Azaala Mpanga | |
| Valletta | Our Lady's of the Carmel Church | |
| Vatican City | St Peter's Basilica - 42.3m 1593 | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | five domes of the St. Mark's basilica | |
| Vienna | Karlskirche, Secession | |
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | Melk Abbey: great dome | |
| Würzburg Residence | stair-house |
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