By Madeleine Muzdakis on February 21, 2021
Detail of the exterior of Cologne Cathedral in Germany. (Photo: Stock Photos from CURIOSO PHOTOGRAPHY/Shutterstock)
The world is dotted with beautiful cathedrals. These spaces of Christian worship range from the medieval gothic flying buttresses of Notre Dame in Paris to the lofty concrete modernism of Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasília in Brazil.
Classically, a cathedral is a church that hosts the seat of a
bishop, a church from which he leads his diocese. Many (but not all) are arranged in a
cross pattern a
nave containing
apse (end of the nave) as well as multiple
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A Varna International Concert in the Ancient Theater in Plodiv, Bulgaria
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