Jaw-Dropping Cathedrals You Won't Believe Exist - Top 10 Countdown

[@Bobrogers99]

I marvel that a thousand years ago there were builders that had the engineering skill to create these structures. I marvel at the incredible number of man-hours to shape each stone by hand, and the number of talented artists that carved so many beautiful ornaments and statues that adorn these buildings. The inspired labors of so many, and their names are lost to time. Even with today's powerful machines, we have not come close to duplicating their work.

[@seantapper5316]

What are you talking about? The workshops are still there in most European cathedrals. They still carve blocks by hand for restoration and repair…

[@EScot337]

I understand your amazement. The cathedrals are amazing. I try to remember that we’re no smarter than people were 1000 years ago. The 747 was designed by men, not computers. I think we’ve become less competent.

[@Bobrogers99]

@@EScot337 We've become dependent on computers to do much of our work for us, and I've seen enough sci-fi episodes to see where that can lead us. Artificial Intelligence could soon be running our lives.

[@greenshp]

This is an interesting list! There are so many others who are just as deserving. What comes to my mind is the Dome of Florence, Notre Dame in Paris, Canterbury and Winchester Cathedrals in England, and one little-known that is absolutely beautiful: the Cathedral of St. Cecilia in Albi, France.

[@AvaCherry189]

Winchester Cathedral is one of my favorites as well. I saw it in 1998 and it’s a little known but in my opinion stand out.

[@olafgogmo5426]

2:55: Well, that's the Blue Mosque, not Hagia Sophia.

[@dmorenol01]

And Hagia Sophia is no longer a Museum, but a Mosque again

[@didier75012]

The structure in question is indeed Hagia Sophia, not the Blue Mosque. The Blue Mosque was constructed approximately a millennium later. I recommend reviewing some images for clarification.

[@roelantverhoeven371]

Antwerp cathedral has the nicest tower tho... I feel safe to say it's objectively even, often described as lace in stone, all the way to the top, 410 ft tall.

[@dwdei8815]

Personally, if I was to pick a Spanish entrant to the bonus round, I'd give Zaragoza a wide swerve - I find it bulky, brash and lacking in that architectural magic of the pick of the crop. Sevilla cathedral, the world's largest until St Patrick's in New York (if that's to be a criterion) is many times more captivating, and the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela not only takes the breath away, but is definitely worth walking 700km to see. Or perhaps Cordobá, which is really a cathedral that shouldn't be there, having been bulldozed into the middle of a much more beautiful mosque. The one in Salamanca is a glorious hybrid of Sagrada Familia is a worthy winner - except for not being a cathedral. Aachen must have been a close contender, too.

[@basmeisters3]

Thank you so much for this video. I totally agree on your #1 (and the rest)

[@lanamack1558]

Many inaccuracies ... disappointing.

[@LuisSantos-us1ww]

I know 6 of the cathedrals shown in the video. To your list, I will join also Notre Dame in Paris, Albi in France and Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

[@danbulowski7013]

St Anthony’s Padua, and Lyon’s Notre Dame deserve to be on this list

[@Destinavigator]

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[@shelly349]

Thamk you for very interesting and well presented video. Love it.

[@gustavtracchia1341]

St Stephan were Beethoven and Mozart got married? I do not know about Mozart, but Beethoven?!?!?

[@LJB103]

First I've ever heard of him being married.

[@wollondillyargyle281]

Check your facts -Beethoven never married!

[@frankdominicbenke6146]

Maybe he meant his funeral!

[@laurencerosania5261]

Strange inaccuracies for a history channel! Beethoven was not married/showing the Blue Mosque as Hagia Sophia/ calling Sagrada Familia a cathedral. But still, nice videos of the buildings!

[@acmejia]

Why are you showing the Blue Mosque when you're talking of Hagia Sophia?

[@didier75012]

The primary focus of the presentation is on the iconic Hagia Sophia. However, it would be beneficial to also include information about the Blue Mosque, which was constructed approximately 1000 years later.

[@aoilpe]

0:44 I didn’t knew Mozart and Beethoven were married…😂 0:52 And as you can see in the foreground a not finished second spire … 3:11 Build in the first half of the 6th century… 3:57 Under construction for more than 650 years… 5:01 The spire was blown off by a storm in 1549. 6:09 It’s a Museum, no longer a church. The Kremlin just behind the wall has 3 other churches… 7:53 The construction lead to the Protestant break off… 8:47 It shows the transition from Romanesque to Gothic.. 10:08 The plot of houses in front of the main facade was planned to be a Park and Terrace leading to the entrance. It’s not a Cathedral, it’s a Church

[@filodomenech5913]

Sorry, but Sagrada família, is not a cathedral

[@HeinrichvonReuss3747]

Barcelona´s Cathedral is Sta Eulalia, but Sagrada Familia is a Basilica.

[@PatSmith-wi1kz]

It's a massive disaster of construction

[@sandoval1977]

You know is unique and a masterpiece piece ​@@PatSmith-wi1kz

[@almeggs3247]

Finally a prepared narrator that gives a beautiful informative talk worthy of the Cathedrals history and religious significance ,!thank you and God Bless you!

[@poetcomic1]

Free Hagia Sophia from Muslim conquest and degradation.

[@martinsmith7243]

What about Seville Cathedral. Jaw dropping too.

[@PatSmith-wi1kz]

The worst layed out garbage church of all time..a mess

[@sandoval1977]

The biggest gothic cathedral in the world full Of art, history and culture, stop hating ​@@PatSmith-wi1kz

[@LJB103]

Good choices (except that St Peter's is a basilica, not a cathedral), but how about St. Isaac's and Kazan Cathedrals in St. Petersburg and St John the Divine in New York?

[@SiqueScarface]

A church can be both, a basilica and a cathedral. Cathedral means, that they are the main church of a diocese, containing the cathedra, the throne of the bishop. St. Peter's is the main church of the diocese of Rome, with the Pope as the archbishop. Hence St. Peter's contains the throne of the Pope, making it a cathedral. About 1500 churches in the World are both a cathedral and a Basilica minor of the Catholic Church.

[@LJB103]

@@SiqueScarface True, but the Cathedral Church of Rome is the Archbasilica St. John Lateran (both a basilica and a cathedral), not St. Peter's. That is only a basilica.

[@SiqueScarface]

@@LJB103 You are right. The Lateran Basilica is formally the highest church in Catholicism.

[@tombarac8253]

Kings Chapel, Cambridge (biggest fan vaulted ceiling) and St.George Chapel, Windsor. Church on island on Seine. I can't remember its name.

[@kimberlycrichton2932]

Here's my list : Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris Chartres Cathedral, France Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Siena Cathedral, Sevilla, Spain (Moorish architecture) Salisbury Cathedral, England Canterbury Cathedral, England Vienna Cathedral, Austria I have only seen photos of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Le Mont St. Michel, France, Wells Cathedral, England

[@ObsidianHistory]

there are so many good ones!

[@mateio632]

Good top, the only stupid thing is the inclusion of Barcelona cathedral. It is a 19 century built that was finished in the 20 century with cranes steel and concrete. It has nothing to do with all the other historical marvels shown. And not to include Florence in the top is crazy (it is only shown at the beginning) in all I think it s not the best selection...

[@SiqueScarface]

The list is strongly biased toward the Gothic style, with six out of ten churches. It would be nice to see some Romanesque buildings (like Aachen Cathedral), some Baroque (Cathedral of Syracuse) or Neoclassical (Esztergom Cathedral) churches on the list.

[@catherinelincoln9830]

What! No Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece?!

[@Er_Guille]

There was no other place to put La Sagrada Familia” (official name is Templo Expiatorio de La Sagrada Familia or Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Family, in its English translation)than at number one.

[@gracematubis8317]

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York is not mentioned here.

[@EduardQualls]

@0:39 *Wow! Stop the presses! Beethoven got married? That's news to everyone! -- especially since BEETHOVEN WAS NEVER MARRIED.* And he certainly didn't marry Mozart!

[@BlancheBurke-r3t]

Cool pix, a nice, but slap-dash intro to European/Asian churches that includes some major errors and omissions (pls, learn how to pronounce "Rheims" and "hagia" [aya]). Also, your camera could have focused on the feature the narrator was rattling on about. Why limit this list to ten? Make it an ongoing series. Consider including churches (you already did here) and monasteries. Did you mean to omit incredible places like Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra or the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City or the Temple of all Religions (Вселенский храм) in Kazan' or the new Russian orthodox cathedral in Paris (Cathédrale de la Sainte-Trinité de Paris) or (heaven forbid) that brutalist hideosity in LA, Our Lady of the Angels, just to name a few?

[@eduardobarreiro317]

❤❤❤🙏

[@PatSmith-wi1kz]

Dammed you people calling Sophia byzantine. Sthup. It's Roman not fake name byz. Enough

[@melclo3641]

No Saint Chapelle, or Notre Dame?

[@catherinemori4496]

Beethoven was a bachelor!

[@FinlayMacintyre-ti9li]

Stopped watching when Beethoven's marriage was mentioned; he never married

[@Edeskenney]

Beethoven was never married.

[@AlbionTarkhan]

Mozart married Beethoven?

[@Edeskenney]

The guy that did this was drunk.

[@olafgogmo5426]

Beethoven and Mozart were married?🤣

[@cocoaorange1]

Maybe he meant their music. He should have clarified more.

[@ropew3]

What an odd list lacking in the great Romanesque Cathedrals of Europe, for example Durham.Sagrada Familia No.1; its not even a cathedral. Neither is St Peter's in the Vatican City.

[@jpdj2715]

Have you noticed, in St. Peter's basilica, in the floor of the center path, markers with names of famous churches are found? This to indicate how large St. Peter's is in the sense of "bigger than". I looked in the middle of the square in front of St. Peter's but did not find the marker for the church of Cluny in France, though, that was left to fall into pieces. Maybe because St. Peter's had to be the biggest one. Are you also aware that the Roman architectural form of "basilica" generally was a shopping mall? They had a "system wall" principle, placing sticks between the outer wall and a column facing that outer wall and cloth was hung over that stick between shops. The less wealthy traders, or ones that needed little space (like money or jewellery traders), would have their little table in the center path.

[@robertbangkok]

The French people are cringing hearing you say "Reems". As did my high school French teacher. Did you Google it? Because, guess what, Google gets it wrong. The word is pronounced "Rants"

[@zekromaron]

Shutup

[@lizatschirret-guth3925]

Rants? Your French sucks my friend...

[@tommccanna7036]

Reims has a well-established English spelling (Rheims) and pronunciation (“reemz”, /ri:mz/), as in the poem by Richard Harris Barham (1837) “The Jackdaw of Rheims”. “… Read of in books, or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims!” Your suggestion of “rants” is quite a way off the normal French pronunciation, /ʁɛ̃s/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

[@Cesarhiguera664]

St. Peters isn't a Cathedral.

[@nathanflynn306]

Your number 1 is not a cathedral.

[@brucewilliams8714]

It is a basilica, thus covered by the introduction.

[@emeraldkimble7602]

Is Isn’t e,y a manor English gothic😊

[@deanweightman6692]

all tartarian build

[@lucylane7397]

What’s tartarian

[@李政宗-l1j]

🌏💗🕊️✝️☦️🛐🇻🇦🙏🙏🙏

[@Maria-ln3xc]

No tienes. I zorra idea

[@JocelenJanon]

So inaccurate…

[@brockputnam9242]

An absolutely generic description of every single one - clearly written and narrated by someone who was just reading words. Pathetic. The cheesy music bed didn't help.

[@KenanTurkiye]

Here's a different perspective nearly all of you most likely did not know before. Jesus Christ the Messiah (peace be upon him) was taken to Heaven by Lord/God/TheCreator because some wanted him dead, so God saved him (be patient, continue reading, you will see ''the matrix'', upto you to escape it). The word christ comes from the Greek word 'christos' meaning chosen/annointed (annointment is the act of chosing) the word messiah comes from the Arabic/Hebrew word 'messiach', again meaning chosen. Jesus did not speak Greek or Arabic or Hebrew, he spoke Aramaic. John 14:28 “I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” John 20:17 '‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 5:30 "I cannot do anything on my own." Mark 10:18 ''Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone.'' (that ''father'' does not mean flesh and bone father, rather TheGuide/God, worship TheCreator/TheGuide/TheGod and not the prophets, peace be upon them all) So, Who chose Jesus? TheCreator/TheGod/TheLord did. To do what? To convey that there is TheCreator/TheGod/TheLord and only ThatSupreme power should be worshipped and prayed to and NO idols/conjured up god/s by human kind, be it a man, a spirit of a man, a sun, a star, a moon, a tree, an animal etc etc be worshipped in any way. Anything that is worshipped besides TheGod is a god, that is false god, hence with a small ''g''. There is one Creator, hence why TheGod, the only One deserving of worship. What does Allah mean as a word? It means TheCreator/TheGod/TheLord. What does ''elaah'' mean as a word? It means any idol or conjured up god or gods that are false and do not deserve worship of any kind, hence why Islam rejects all gods but TheGod/TheCreator/TheLord/Allah. Why are all religions in opposition of Islam? Because they have a god or many gods but TheGod that is worshipped in someway or another. Have you ever read a Quran from start to finish? That you can answer for your self. (I recommend the Sahih International english translation, it's good). Best wishes. ------------------------------- .....btw..... Jesus did preach to worship the OneGod/TheCreator and not anything else, and so did his followers, peace be upon them all. This unsettled the Roman Empire because this idea of Monotheism went against their pagan beliefs where the emperor was both emperor and god. They persecuted the followers of Jesus and even attempted to kill Jesus, even a Roman Empire servant Saul of Tarsus was out to kill Jesus. Saul never managed to meet Jesus in real life but after Jesus was taken up to Heaven Saul said he saw a dream and said he will now preach the teachings of Jesus. Saul of Tarsus is also known in todays christianity as Saint Paul, so todays christians are actually on the teaching of ''Saint'' Paul which brings in trinity and godhead figure of Jesus and rejects Monotheism. -Jesus was commanded to preach Monotheism, which he did and early followers were Monotheistic (Islamic) believing people, which later changed with the Roman Empires paganism spreading -Jesus was commanded to preach ONLY to the Israelites, which he did, but after him Saul of Tarsus aka ''saint Paul'' started to preach to the Gentiles, which is the foundation of todays christiandom. -Jesus was commanded to rule for the circumsicion which he did, but it was taken out after he left -Roman Empire in 325 AD held a council, with empire alligned 'scholars'' to decide and VOTE on whether Jesus was to be worshipped or not, they VOTED that Jesus be accepted as god (in aliagn with the pagan beliefs of the Roman traditions) and ever since the trinity became the 'christian way' (not what Jesus preached), and sinc that time the Church has chronicled how many times the ''Bible'' has been changed, verses removed and verses added to SUIT this altered idea of trinity! -------------------------------------------------------------- These are parts below, of the so called ''Bible'', man written '' Bible'' not the true Bible TheCreator revelaved to Jesus, peace be upon him. The book currently known as ''Bible'' is a mixture of verses very few from TheGod the rest are mans comments (and the christians say Islam was spread by the sword, the irony!, heres excerpts from man written Bible): Joshua 6:21 : They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. Samuel 15:3 : Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. Numbers 31:17-18 : [17] Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. [18] But all the awomen children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Ezekiel 9:5-6 : As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. Slaughter the old men, the young men. Jeremiah 48:10 : A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD's work! A curse on anyone who keeps their sword from bloodshed! Matthew 10:34-35 : [34] Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. [35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. ----------------------------------------- Wishing you the very best.

[@MegaTechno2000]

Jesus Appears to Thomas Now Thomas , one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@MegaTechno2000 And in who's book is that in? Meaning who wrote that? You do realize that each part of the 'new testament' entitled ''book of so and so'' Meaning that a man like you and me wrote those ''verses''. Even the Church chronicles which books got added and removed, which 'verses' got added and removed in order to make the ''Bible'' known today.

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@MegaTechno2000 The same book you quote and believe also has these verses: John 14:28 “I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” John 20:17 '‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 5:30 "I cannot do anything on my own." Mark 10:18 ''Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone.'' (that ''father'' does not mean flesh and bone father, rather TheGuide/God, worship TheCreator/TheGuide/TheGod and not the prophets, peace be upon them all)

[@KenanTurkiye]

Furthermore, Abraham, Moses, and all other prophets beforehand all said that God is GOD without equals, partners and is ONE. Furthermore, Jesus, peace be upon him, said he did not come to change the Law, meaning what was sent before, and this includes monotheism which all prophets, peace be upon them all, commanded in line with the Will of God. But Paul changed all that. Christianist is Paulanity, not the religion of Christ, Messiah Jesus, peace be upon him. Best wishes.

[@MegaTechno2000]

Muhammad was a false prophet ... Jesus tells us to beware: “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. Bible: Matthew 24

[@ericgen1231]

From Earth orbit these "jaw-dropping" cathedrals look like the period at the end of this sentence. 🥱 Now look at the images of the universe from the James Webb space telescope to see what is really impressive.

[@bernhardw2346]

True, but the comparison is not really valid. Both man's works and God's works inspire awe.