Chartres Cathedral
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(CC) Photo: Ben Beiske
A detailed model of the Chartres Cathedral at the Museum of World Religion in Taipei.
A detailed model of the Chartres Cathedral at the Museum of World Religion in Taipei.
Chartres Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres) is a great cathedral in Chartres, France. It was built between 1193 and 1250 in the Gothic architectural style over the burned ruins of an ongoing modernization project of a previous wood-roofed Romanesque church that had housed the tunic worn by Virgin Mary at Jesus's nativity.