ArchitectureFag here…the word "cathedral" contains the root cathedra, which is Latin for chair, and also derives from the Greek word kathédra, or seat. A cathedra serves as the chair/seat or "throne" of a bishop. Attached Q crumbs may or may not be related.

Also, successful Gothic cathedral proportions (meaning it didn't collapse) were largely based on the Golden Ratio and the geometry of a pentagram.

Inb4 cathedrals are EVIL…because most modern and postmodern architecture is soulless garbage that was also built on the backs of slaves and inspires no one excepts demons kek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedra

>>6192890

Jesus…

>>6192911

Don't tell me we time-traveling here kek.

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>>6193131

TOP KEK

>>6193162

Ironically enough, it was the novel that helped inspire the major renovations of the mid-1800s…the inside was falling apart at that point from both revolutions and the public didn't really give a damn. So much of what burned is not 800 years old. And actually, cathedral fires have never been uncommon. Notre Dame in Chartres has the craziest story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral