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The interior of the medieval chapel at the St. Olaf's Castle Windsor Castle, England (on the left, St George's Chapel), 1848. Castle chapels (German: Burgkapellen) in European architecture are chapels that were built within a castle. They fulfilled the religious requirements of the castle lord and his retinue, while also sometimes serving as a ...
Citadel of the Hồ Dynasty (Vietnamese: Thành nhà Hồ, chữ Nho: 城茹胡; also called Tây Đô/西都castle or Tây Giai castle) is a 15th century stone fortress in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam. It served as the western capital of the Hồ dynasty (1398–1407) while also being an important political, economic, and cultural centre in the 16th to ...
In the early 14th century, a wing of the duke's castle was added to the chapel. [12] In 1309, the altar of St. Margaret was mentioned. [11] In the 14th century, the chapel was further expanded with a porch. [3] [7] [8] In 1416, at the behest of John II, the chapter was transferred from the castle chapel to the parish church.
Bombay Castle, also known in Vietnamese: Đá Ba Kè; Mandarin Chinese: 蓬勃堡; pinyin: Péngbó Bǎo; [1] Abad Santos Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Abad Santos, lit. 'Sandbank of Abad Santos '), is a reef with a lighthouse in the Rifleman Bank of the southern Spratly Islands .
The Christ the King Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ chính tòa Kitô Vua; French: Cathédrale du Christ-Roi), also called Nha Trang Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Núi Nha Trang), is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nha Trang in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa in Central Vietnam.
The Castle Chapel in Lubin is located on Mikołaj Pruzio Street on the Castle Hill in Lubin, Poland. The chapel is the only element left from the medieval castle buildings (it originally stood next to the entrance gate in the castle courtyard). The date in the tympanum - 1349 - determines the time of construction. It had 3 altars in the 14th ...
The Mitterberg castle was first mentioned in documents in 1185 in the Admont Abbey.In 1653, the castle was completely rebuilt. [5] [6]In 1990, the worthiness of preservation of the dilapidated chapel was confirmed by the Provincial Monuments Office, and in 1997 ownership was transferred to the newly founded "Verein zur Rettung der Schlosskapelle Mitterberg" (Association for the Rescue of ...
During the Vietnam War, the Imperial Citadel was used as an administrative capital and headquarters for the North Vietnamese Ministry of Defense and Army. During and after the revolution, several French structures were destroyed or re-appropriated, including what is now the Vietnam Military History Museum (formerly a French military ...