Cathedrals, churches and temples.
Sacred buildings from nine centuries: Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, Notre-Dame de Paris, St Peter’s, Hagia Sophia, the Golden Pavilion of Kinkaku-ji and Wat Arun. Each is modelled in 3D from photographs of the real building.
Sagrada FamíliaAntoni Gaudí's basilica, begun 1882 and still rising: eighteen tapering…
Notre-Dame de ParisThe Gothic cathedral of Paris on the Île de la Cité, 1163–1345: twin…
Sacré-CœurThe white Romano-Byzantine basilica on the summit of Montmartre…
St Peter's BasilicaThe largest church in the world: Maderno's colossal façade crowned by…
St Paul's CathedralSir Christopher Wren's Baroque masterpiece, completed 1710, whose…
Westminster AbbeyLondon's coronation church since 1066 and the burial place of kings and…
Florence CathedralSanta Maria del Fiore in green, white and pink marble, crowned by…
Cologne CathedralThe High Gothic cathedral begun in 1248 and finished in 1880, its twin…
Hagia SophiaJustinian's church of 537, the largest in the world for nearly a…
HallgrímskirkjaGuðjón Samúelsson's Lutheran church of 1945–86, the tallest in Iceland…
Sheikh Zayed Grand MosqueThe white marble grand mosque of Abu Dhabi, completed 2007: eighty-two…
Kinkaku-jiThe Zen temple's Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, first built in 1397: two…
Wat ArunThe Temple of Dawn on the Chao Phraya in Bangkok: a 70-metre central…
Lotus TempleFariborz Sahba's Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, 1986: twenty-seven…
Angkor WatThe 12th-century Khmer temple-mountain, the largest religious monument…
Kylemore AbbeyThe 1868 Gothic Revival castle on the shore of Pollacappul Lough in…
Cochecton Center ChurchHistoric white clapboard Gothic Revival church in Cochecton Center, New…
Original photographs and plans stay private; what you are looking at is the 3D reconstruction. Each model is an interpretation of a building, not a survey of it.