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Early Christianity · CatholicBasilica of San ClementeRome, Italy4th-century church; present upper basilica c. 1100A Roman church stacked above an earlier basilica, house complex, Mithraic sanctuary, and ancient street, making urban religious change physically visible.Read the full history Medieval · CatholicSpeyer CathedralSpeyer, GermanyBegun 1030; major rebuilding completed c. 1106The vast Salian imperial cathedral on the Rhine, whose vaults, towers, crypt, and royal burials made Romanesque architecture an argument about sacred rule.Read the full history Medieval · AnglicanDurham CathedralDurham, United Kingdom1093–1133The great Norman cathedral above the River Wear, built for Cuthbert and Bede and celebrated for experimental rib vaults and massive patterned piers.Read the full history

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