![]() ![]() Its height is 56 meters tall, and it was claimed to be the second tallest wooden building in the world. ![]() Built in the form of a cross, the church nave measures 58 metres (190 feet) in length, with transepts that are 41 m (135 ft) across the church spire rises 56 m (184 ft) from floor to steeple.Ĭompleted in 1907, the Ascension Cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is made out of wood but without nails. It is one of the largest and tallest wooden buildings in North America. ![]() Re-built in 1904, Église Sainte-Marie is a Catholic church in Church Point, Canada. XXI century was the time of the wooden churches with their soaring bell towers. Yongning Temple Tower is not only 500 years earlier than it, but also twice as high. Today, the highest existing wooden tower in China the Sakyamuni Pagoda of the Fogong Temple is 67.31 meters high. According to the records and excavation data, some researchers speculate that it is about 136.7 meters. There are different records about the height of the tower. Possibly nine stories high, of which seven were made of earth platforms with wooden verandas, and the top two stories were completely out of wood.Īccording to records, it is a square tower with a wood structure, nine stories high, and can be seen from a hundred miles away. The Yongning Pagoda or Yongning Temple in China was one of the first tallest timber buildings in the world from 516 AD to 534 AD. The timber-frame Chinese architecture with a complete column grid and a stabilising masonry core was built during the Northern Wei in 516 AD but is no longer extant. ![]()
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