Sacred spaces
White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk
3200 BCE Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt
1279 BCE Parthenon dedicated to Athena, Athens, Greece
Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates 447 BCE Great Stupa, Sanci, India
3rd century BCE Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome, Italy
75 BCE Pantheon, Rome, Italy
118 CE Saint Sernin, Toulouse, Fance
1070 Chartes Cathedral, France
1143 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Begun 1506 |
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