Domes

Significant domed buildings

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Domes':

  • Aachen Cathedral domed octagon design
  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns Mycenae, Treasury of Atreus - 14.6m 1300 BC
  • Ardabil Several of the tombs
  • Bagerhat has nearly sixty big domes
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hospicio Cabanas dome of the chapel
  • Humayun's Tomb
  • Istanbul 31.5m. Worlds 1st "Pendentive dome" AD 543
  • 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
  • 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
  • Petäjävesi Old Church octagonal dome
  • Rome Pantheon - 43.4m Unreinforced concrete - Largest dome in world between 128-1881
  • Royal Exhibition Building
  • Sanchi Great Stupa
  • 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 ?ljeit? or Dome of Soltaniyeh
  • St. Petersburg St. Isaac's Cathedral, built 1842, with a cast iron dome nearly 26 meters wide.
  • Taj Mahal White marble dome
  • The trulli of Alberobello Domed houses
  • 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