@Pheminon1
Dude No matter what your religion is, some of those cathedrals look absolutely breathtaking
@Caiothian
I gotta say, I wish we valued architecture like this today
@n5gus
As someone who grew up catholic going to a modern “mega” church was an experience to say the least. It was indistinguishable from a concert.
@jebbroham1776
When I was the Navy we were on a deployment in the Med, and one of our ports was Marseilles, France. While walking around with a few buddies we saw a cathedral and decided to go inside an have a look around the place. Little did we know, that church was the Notre-Dame de la Garde which had origins spanning back as far as 1218. We were standing in a structure that predated our country by almost 700 years. It was after that deployment and seeing many ancient sites and structures including Roman ruins that I decided to study history in college and made it my life's passion, because the more you know history the better you can predict the future.
@amberv9424
Gothic cathedrals and so many others are absolutely breathtaking
@bridgetbecker8589
It can also be a reflection of acoustics or the availability of a sound system. High vaulted cathedrals carried sound before microphones.
@Benwut
Where I grew up in a very rural area of tunisia as a christian, we didn't have any proper western style churches. But instead, our local mosque had an extra little side wing for the christians in the town to go to (cos about 20-ish percent of the population was christian)
@aidanmaniaMusic
The cathedrals we could make today would be truly divine
@Undomaranel
You failed to mention acoustics. In the eras before microphones and amplification the architecture and vaulted ceilings allowed for sound to echo and travel above the standing crowd. Look into Bach and Handel's works for differing overviews of writing music for the church, and how their chorale vs organ vs harpsichord set ups affected the quality of the performance. Edited because autocorrect autofailed. "Perfirmance" is not a word phone 😮💨
@ladykatie3958
My dads a pastor and he my mom and I were recently taking a vacation in Italy. We were touring this cathedral and realized they were about to start mas so we started to head out. But before we did the church goers started singing and even though it was in Italian and none of us could really understand it the way the music echoed in the building was breathtaking.
@seedspittinspacecowboy
I've always loved going to churches and look around. They're truly a testament of human creativity.
@jeannebouwman1970
Those gothic cathedrals with tall stained glass windows behind the altar on a sunny morning is the most beautiful a church can ever be
@odynith9356
I went to Toledo Spain and my god the cathedral of Toledo is one of the biggest and most beautiful cathedrals I’ve ever seen. Took like 400 years to build the stone work and detail of every inch is a spectacle to behold.
@J0PHIEL
They also sometimes include resonance patterns into the glass and stone work. Really fascinating
@hesperamoon
absolutely adore gothic cathedrals, and gothic architecture in general. its just breathtaking. and the ACOUSTICS!! as a music lover it really is unbeatable
@ianmacfarlane1241
I'll need to remember this next time I build a cathedral.
@g7_829
Small note- the baroque style in portugal was used more as a protection insted of fully simbolic. Its sturdy and bunker like apearance was used as a place where villagers could hide if the village was ever invaded by an army
@CH3R.N0BY1
churches and cathedrals will always be some of the most beautiful feats of human architecture
@WeNeedJesus184
How absolutely mind blowing it would have been to be from that time and visit the big city from your small village and then see / step into one of these huge cathedrals!
@_magnify