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Notre-Dame de Paris

Reims Cathedral

The Woolworth Building in New York City features a tall, ornate neo-Gothic tower with a green roof, surrounded by other skyscrapers and trees in the foreground.

Flying buttresses and parapet (with pinnacles) on the Cathedral of Milan, begun 1386.

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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

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