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a stone argument that God is bigger than your attention span and your budget.
means A cathedral is the principal church of a diocese, the one that houses the official seat of a bishop, usually large and architecturally ambitious.
from From the Latin 'cathedra,' meaning a chair or seat — itself borrowed from Greek 'kathedra,' a sitting place (kata-, down, plus hedra, seat). The building is named not for its size or spires but for a single piece of furniture: the bishop's throne. 'Cathedral' began as an adjective — the 'cathedral church,' the church that holds the chair — before the noun quietly walked off on its own. So every soaring nave is, at root, a very large way of pointing at where the bishop gets to sit.
- name origin
- Named for the cathedra, the bishop's chair inside
- build time
- Cologne's took 632 years to finish
- flying buttress
- External arms that hold walls up from outside
- medieval skyscraper
- Tallest buildings on Earth for centuries
- acoustic trick
- Reverb stretched chant into something otherworldly
sagrada familia — gaudi's unfinished basilica in barcelona, under construction since 1883
notre-dame de chartres — french gothic cathedral with 176 stained glass windows built 1194-1220
cologne cathedral — german gothic masterpiece on the rhine, took 632 years to complete (1248-1880)
st paul's london — christopher wren's baroque cathedral rebuilt after the 1666 great fire