You Will Hardly Drop Your Head Having These Heavenlike Ceilings Above
There’s a reason ceilings are higher (meaning closer to God) than other architectural elements. Some are so miraculous that you’ll forget where you’ve come: to a cathedral or a mosque. That is the joining power of real art.
Trinity College Library in Ireland
Terrace at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City
Summer Palace in Beijing, China
Salon Urbain in Montreal, Canada
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Palazzo della Cancellaria, Rome, Italy
National Assembly Building in Wales
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
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Mirror Work Inside Shah Cheragh Mosque, Shiraz, Iran
Minimalistic ceiling
Metro station in Naples, Italy
Marrakech Menara Airport in Morocco
Lukang’s Lungshan Temple, Taiwan
La Sagrada Família Church in Barcelona, Spain
Hall of the Two Sisters at Alhambra in Spain
Glass ceiling by Chihuly at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas
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Entrance at a home in Cape Town, South Africa
Church of the Saviour of Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Chiesa Santa Maria Assunta, Soncino, Italy
Chamber of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
Castello di Sammezzano in Reggello, Tuscany, Italy
Cardiff Castle, Arab room ceiling, Wales
British Museum in London
Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Germany
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Some more amazing mosques
This post includes old mosques as well as modern high-tech ceilings. No matter how historically significant they are, only the beauty is important.
What do you think?