cathedrals
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
cathedrals
- Details
The buildings housing churches in a Christian system that have an episcopal form of government, where the church is the primary church in a diocese or the seat of a diocesan bishop, archbishop, primate, patriarch, or pope. They are generally grandiose structures and house the "cathedra" or throne of the bishop.
- Variations
cathedral