Wooden architecture

Buildings constructed totally or mainly out of wood.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Wooden architecture':

  • Ancient Kyoto
  • Ancient Nara
  • Bridgetown Chattel Houses
  • Bryggen
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex
  • Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
  • Churches of Chiloé
  • Churches of Peace
  • Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
  • Engelsberg Ironworks
  • Fujian Tulou
  • Gammelstad
  • Great Smoky Mountains Historical Log Cabins at Cades Cove
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu Shuri Castle
  • Haeinsa Temple
  • Hahoe and Yangdong
  • Hallstatt-Dachstein boat houses
  • Himeji-jo
  • Hiraizumi Chusonji Temple
  • Horyu-ji Area
  • Imperial Palace
  • Istanbul Zeyrek houses ; link
  • Itsukushima Shrine
  • Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos Except for the church in San José, all churches are made out of wood
  • Jongmyo Shrine
  • Karlskrona Amiralitetskyrkan wooden church
  • Kernavë Archeological Site wooden chapel near the church
  • Kii Mountain Range 3 Great Kumano Shrines, part of Kii - Koyasan
  • Kizhi Pogost
  • L'Anse aux Meadows
  • Luang Prabang
  • Mount Wutai Main hall of Nanchan Monastery and the East Hall of Fuguang Monastery
  • Mountain Resort, Chengde
  • Nessebar
  • Nikko
  • Old Rauma
  • Old Town Lunenburg
  • Old Town of Lijiang Timber-framed Naxi domestic dwellings
  • Olympic National Park ; link
  • Paramaribo
  • Petäjävesi Old Church
  • Potsdam Alexandrowska
  • Prague Wooden church on Petrin hill
  • Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  • Riga
  • Royal Joseon Tombs All Joseon tombs contain a T-shaped shrine. "The T-shaped shrine reflected traditional Korean wooden architecture and was built with round wooden pillars erected on neatly dressed cornerstones. The wooden beams were buttressed with simple wing-like brackets." - nomination file
  • Røros
  • Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple Bulguksa Temple
  • SGang Gwaay
  • Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
  • Skogskyrkogarden The Woodland Chapel
  • St. Petersburg Peter the Great's Summer Cabin
  • Strasbourg Kamerzell House (the oldest in Strassburg)
  • Studley Royal Park Temple of Fame: "The temple of Fame is a folly in both senses of the word as it appears to be made from stone, but is in fact painted wood."; link
  • Temple of Heaven
  • Urnes Stave Church
  • Venice and its Lagoon The squeri (shipyards)
  • Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
  • Vlkolinec
  • Westminster Westminster Hall by Hugh Herland
  • Wooden Churches of Maramures
  • Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
  • Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
  • Yellowstone Old Faithful Inn, the largest wooden hotel in the world ; link
  • Yungang Grottoes