1090s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- About 1090
- Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe completed (begun about 1040).
- Construction of city Walls of Ávila in Spain begins.
- About 1090–1094 – Minaret of Great Mosque of Aleppo in Syria built (destroyed 2013).
- 1090 – Javeri temple is built in Khajuraho, Chandela kingdom.
- 1091
- Cairo Fatimid city wall built (begun in 1087).
- Ananda Temple built in Bagan, Pagan Kingdom capital.
- 1093
- Second of the Kharraqan towers mausoleums built in Qazvin, Seljukid Iran.
- Durham Cathedral in the north of England founded.
- Ely Cathedral in the east of England founded.
- 1094
- 40-foot-tall water-powered astronomical clocktower in Song dynasty's capital Bianjing designed by Su Song completed.
- San Juan de la Peña Monastery consecrated.
- Earliest parts of the Old Synagogue (Erfurt), Germany, one of the oldest synagogue buildings in Europe, dated back to this year.
- About 1094 – Battle Abbey in the south of England consecrated.
- 1095 – Sant'Abbondio, Como in Lombardy consecrated.
- 1096
- St. Sernin's Basilica, Toulouse consecrated.
- Norwich Cathedral in the east of England begun.
- 1097
- Construction of the original stage of the Flower Pagoda in the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees in Guangzhou, Song dynasty.
- Djamaa el Kebir mosque of Algiers built in Almoravid Algeria.[1]
- 1099 – Modena Cathedral begun.
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Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (1090)
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Ananda Temple, Bagan (1091)
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Kharaghan Towers (mausoleums) of Qazvin (1093)
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Great Mosque of Aleppo minaret (1094)
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Su Song's astronomical clocktower in Bianjing (1094)
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Chevet of St. Sernin's Basilica, Toulouse (1095)
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Basilica of Sant'Abbondio (1095)
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Flower Pagoda in the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Guangzhou (1097)
Events
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References
- ^ "Fountain in Mosque of El Kebir, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library. 1899. Retrieved 2013-09-24.