Domes
Significant domed buildings
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aachen Cathedral | domed octagon design | |
| Assisi | The dome of the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (Nomination file, p. 6, 44) | |
| Bagerhat | has nearly sixty big domes | |
| Bahá’i Holy Places | Golden dome in Haifa | |
| Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn | Beehive tombs | |
| Belfries | The belfries of Amiens, Cambrai and Gravelines are topped by a dome. | |
| 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 | |
| Champagne | The bell tower of the abbey church of Hautvillers is crowned by a square slate dome surmounted by two campaniles. (Nomination file, p. 75) | |
| Champaner-Pavagadh | "Tomb structures are almost all square in plan, with a dome resting on columns. They are highly decorated and often linked to a mosque." (AB ev) | |
| 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) | |
| Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture | "Characteristics of these buildings, produced by the Pskov School of Architecture, include cubic volumes, domes, porches and belfries" (UNESCO Description) | |
| Divrigi | "The mosque has a single prayer room and is crowned by two cupolas." (UNESCO) | |
| El Escurial | ||
| Fasil Ghebbi | Castle has egg-shaped domed roof | |
| Ferapontov Monastery | The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin "is a three-aisled structure surmounted by a dome". (AB Ev) | |
| 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 | |
| Kraków | "The spread of the Renaissance style dome outside of Italy began with central Europe. Although there was often a stylistic delay of a century or two, Poland has a number of important examples, such as the Polish Sigismund's Chapel in Kraków (1517–1533)." (wiki) | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | St. Basil Cathedral's colurful domes and Golden domes inside Kremlin | |
| Longobards in Italy | The dome of the church of Santa Sophia in Benevento (Nomination file, p. 201) | |
| Masjed-e Jâme' | two extraordinary domes (AB ev) | |
| Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt | The onion domes of the Russian Chapel (Nomination file, p. 30) | |
| Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi | 18.2m, largestever built in Central Asia 1389 | |
| Medieval Monuments in Kosovo | Gracanica is a five-dome building | |
| Medina of Sousse | • One notable structural feature is the small freestone dome located above the entrance porch. The circular dome rises from an octagonal base supported by squinches. This dome is the oldest of its kind in existence, and a precursor to the dome of the nearby Great Mosque of Kairouan (Archnet) | |
| Medina of Tunis | Tourbet el Bey: "The building is topped with domes, the main ones covered with green tortoiseshell-shaped tiles, and the facades are of ochre sandstone, decorated at regular intervals by pilasters and Italian-style entablatures in light-coloured stone." | |
| 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 | |
| Nice | The Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas and Saint Alexandra is topped by a dome with eight oculi. The Orthodox Cathedral of Saint-Nicholas is also topped by onion domes. Other buildings also feature domes, e.g. Palais Lamartine, Grand Hôtel de Noailles, Hôtel Atlantic, Palais Martin, Hôtel Negresco. (Nomination file, p. 70, 94, 95, 109, 127, 128, 175) | |
| Nubian Monuments | The Concrete Dome of the Reconstructed Temples | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | Dome of the Rock- 20.37m AD 691 | |
| Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles | Cathedral of Padua and the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | Les Invalides, Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Paris | |
| Petäjävesi Old Church | octagonal dome | |
| Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) | Domes of the cathedral and the baptistry | |
| Poblet Monastery | The Gothic dome of the abbey church. | |
| Ravenna | The domes of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistry, the Arian Baptistry, the Basilica of San Vitale (AB Ev) | |
| 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 | |
| Santiago de Compostela | The "dome above the crossing contains the pulley mechanism to swing the "Botafumeiro", which is a famous thurible found in" the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. | |
| 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 | |
| Siena | Siena Cathedral: "The dome rises from a hexagonal base with supporting columns. The dome was completed in 1264." (wiki) | |
| 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 | |
| Val di Noto | Catania Cathedral, and Badia di Sant'Agata (Catania), Ragusa Cathedral, Cathedral of San Giorgio and Santa Maria dell'Itria (Ragusa) | |
| 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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