The St. Louis Cathedral Basilica is one of the best examples of Romanesque architecture on the outside and Byzantine architecture on the inside west of the Mississippi. Quoting Wikipedia: "In 1912, installation of mosaics in the interior began. Completed in 1988, it contains 41.5 million glass tesserae pieces applying over 7,000 colors. Covering 83,000 square feet (8,000 m²), it is one of the largest mosaic collections in the world, and was created by 20 different artists including Hildreth…

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Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. I was lucky to have the place pretty much to myself for a half hour. Photo Madness...

The Basilica of Saint-Denis is the earliest known example of Gothic architecture and provided a model for ecclesiastical structures throughout the Middle Ages.

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Sunshine and light spots playing on the stained glass windows in the choir of the cathedral . The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis) is a large abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of unique importance historically and architecturally.