st. peter's basilica

     

Found in northwest Rome, it's Europe's largest Christian church

Trivia about st. peter's basilica

  • It's the sacred church covered by the over-400-foot-high dome seen here
  • Bernini designed the colonnade around the piazza at this basilica to represent the church's embrace
  • 17th C. composer Frescobaldi was organist at this Rome basilica for about 30 years -- pretty good gig
  • Then the largest church in the Christian world, this basilica was dedicated in 1626
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a geometric diagram) Bernini said his plan of a large oval connected to a trapezoidal space for the piazza of this building was meant to evoke the arms of the Church embracing its faithful
  • The Baldacchino, a 95' high bronze canopy designed by Bernini, stands in this basilica
  • Bernini, one of this basilica's great architects, designed the magnificent baldacchino over its papal altar
  • The world's largest church, newly opened in the Ivory Coast, is said to resemble this 1, now 2nd largest

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