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)

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