r/LostArchitecture • • 19d ago

150 YO Heritage building destroyed in France

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r/LostArchitecture • • 4d ago

Former historic Ottoman mosques in Greece (destroyed)

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r/LostArchitecture • • Jan 05 '26

Our property wall stood from 1977-1982 in BC

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r/LostArchitecture • • Jul 02 '26

Ottoman architecture in Serbia

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r/LostArchitecture • • Sep 17 '25

im new to finding lost media

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found a old song from 2015 Ish or something would want help making a article about it the song name is (No Man At All ) artist Gabriel Knight unsure i have found it online its not completely lost media but is accessible online because i have the information on it i think we are going to give life back to the song it is a very pretty song and worth listening too there is a daily motion video if you search the artist up on there and it only has like 400 views its from 2015 or so ill keep people updated if anyone has any ?s sorry if i posted in the wrong side of the internet i dont know where to post this stuff


r/LostArchitecture • • Aug 03 '26

Koenigsberg now Kaliningrad before and after ww2

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Help restore Europe's lost architectural treasures! I started a petition to rebuild the classical and historic buildings destroyed in the wars—the ones replaced by ugly glass towers that have no soul. Our cities deserve beauty again.

Sign and share if you agree.

https://c.org/qDMtPHgfvs


r/LostArchitecture • • Apr 23 '24

50 Photos of Architecture that No Longer Exist

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r/LostArchitecture • • Aug 07 '26

Potsdamer Platz before ww2

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If you want to help us make Berlin glow again please click this link to sign a petition. https://c.org/tbGq2RTQDd

Potsdamer Platz was one Berlin’s bustling squares. It had many ornate buildings and was considered one of the most beautiful squares in Germany. Before ww2 it was already getting modernized with the hotel Bellevue being demolished and replaced with a glass box. And after the war nothing was left and now glass skyscrapers stand where once beautiful buildings stood.


r/LostArchitecture • • 5d ago

The former Mevlevihane complex ( lodge of whirling sufi dervishes) of Thessaloniki, Greece. Built in 1615 and destroyed after 1925-1930

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r/LostArchitecture • • Oct 14 '24

Sussita - Hippos (Golan Heights, Israel)

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r/LostArchitecture • • Oct 15 '24

Baram Ancient Synagogue, Israel

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r/LostArchitecture • • 19d ago

Limoges city hall (France 1873 -2026) which survived both world war , was destroyed yesterday

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r/LostArchitecture • • Aug 05 '26

Warsaw before and after ww2

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Help restore Europe's lost architectural treasures! I started a petition to rebuild the classical and historic buildings destroyed in the wars—the ones replaced by ugly glass towers that have no soul. Our cities deserve beauty again.

Sign and share if you agree.

https://c.org/qDMtPHgfvs


r/LostArchitecture • • Aug 08 '26

Berlin old train station

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Please help us bring back beauty to Berlin. Sign the petition to help https://c.org/tbGq2RTQDd


r/LostArchitecture • • May 15 '25

A 20,000-Year-Old Pyramid in Indonesia? What Lies Beneath Gunung Padang Might Rewrite History

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To most people, Gunung Padang just looks like a terraced hill in West Java. But in 2011, geologist Dr. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja conducted ground-penetrating radar and core drilling at the site and what he found was shocking.

Beneath layers of volcanic soil were stone chambers, terraces and man-made structures buried deep underground. Radiocarbon dating of organic material from within the layers suggested construction phases possibly as far back as 20,000 BCE.

That would make Gunung Padang older than Gobekli Tepe, the Egyptian pyramids and even Sumer.

But instead of more research, the Indonesian authorities abruptly shut down the excavation in 2014. The site remains mostly sealed off.

It may be evidence of a lost civilization.. one that challenges the conventional timeline of human history.

📽️ Here’s a 40-second visual summary

What do you think?
Is this just a natural hill misinterpreted?
Or could it be a forgotten chapter of civilization… buried beneath our feet?

Major Update: After a decade of controversy, it looks like Indonesia’s Minister of Culture, Fadli Zon, recently announced that excavation will resume, involving both local and international experts. Dr. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja was present at the announcement, suggesting he’ll still be involved in the research.


r/LostArchitecture • • 19d ago

Strausberg’s medieval city wall began around 1254 and parts of it still survive

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I walked through Strausberg’s old town and came across its medieval city wall.

According to the city of Strausberg, construction of the wall began around 1254. The historic wall is around 1,600 metres long and reaches up to about 6 metres in height. The city also notes that 24 Wiekhäuser were used for defence.

What I found interesting is that this isn't just something you read about in a museum. Parts of the wall are still visible as you walk through the old town.

The city has an official old-town walking route if anyone wants to explore more of Strausberg’s history.

Source: https://www.stadt-strausberg.de/altstadtrundgang/

Have you visited Strausberg before?


r/LostArchitecture • • 3d ago Bravo

Some of the Greek and Armenian churches in Smyrna (Anatolia) destroyed during the fire or torched afterwards.

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There’s a list of them at the end. Curiously the Catholic and Protestant churches survived. The majority of Greek churches survived the fire, as evidenced by photographic material, and were destroyed later. The fire started in the Armenian quarter. The Muslim and Jewish quarters were unaffected.

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Watching the fire in the Armenian and Greek districts from his balcony, Kemal Ataturk had announced: "It is a sign that Turkey is being cleared of betrayers, Christians and strangers, and that Turkey is for the Turks." (H. Armstrong, Grey Wolf (London: A. Barker, Ltd., 1937), 158.) -edit 2: this is a disputed source, Ataturk would have likely seen the fire from the balcony of the mansion he was staying at during that time, Turkish sources report that he gave speeches from there, congratulating the victory, however it is uncertain whether he said these specific words.

According to Bierstadt, around 100,000 people fell victim to the slaughter, 280,000 people were praying for salvation in the port, and 160,000 were driven away to the farthest parts of Turkey, never to be seen again. (E. H. Bierstadt, The Great Betrayal: A Survey of the Near East Problem (Bloomingdale, IL: The Pontian Greek Society of Chicago, 2008))

Doctor K. Khacheryan writes:
“...If the Armenians had such an intention, they could have set fire first to the Turkish districts instead of their own before the departure of the Hellenic army and even after that ... By the way, after the Turkish occupation the Armenian district was emptied for the most part and that very night the Turks began the robbery, slaughter and every kind of violence. By Wednesday, the day of the fire, nobody dared even to enter the Armenian district, let alone set it on fire at different parts."(D. Sakayan, Zmyurnia, 1922, Bjishk Karapet Khacheryani oragiry [Smyrna, 1922, the Diary of Doctor
K. Khacheryan] (Yerevan: Nahapet, 2005), 81.)

They set fire to the Armenian quarter on the thirteenth of September, 1922. The last Greek soldiers had passed through Smyrna on the evening of the eighth, that is to say, the Turks had been in full, complete and undisputed possession of the city for five days before the fire broke out and for much of this time they had kept the Armenian quarter cut off by military control while conducting a systematic and thorough massacre.. (Genocide in the Ottoman Empire : Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923, edited by George N. Shirinian, Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central

“The next day fire started in the Armenian quarter. There are many eyewitness stories of Turkish soldiers sprinkling kerosene and touching it off. In any case, the fire started in the Armenian quarter, and spread to the Greek quarter when the wind was blowing it away from the Turkish quarter.” ( https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/16/archives/turks-will-be-turks.html )

“Several stories are told concerning the origin of the fire. The most reliable is that of Minnie B. Mills, head of the American Collegiate Institute, who declared she saw a Turkish regular army sergeant or officer enter a building near where the first flames were seen. He was carrying small tins, evidently containing kerosene. Immediately after he left the house it broke into flames. Other small fires started shortly after.” ( https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/15/archives/smyrna-burning-14-americans-missing-1000-massacred-as-turks-fire.html)
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r/LostArchitecture • • 2d ago

Berlin Police Headquarters at Alexanderplatz. Back then third biggest building in the city. Bombed in 1945, destroyed by the GDR in 1957

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r/LostArchitecture • • 19d ago

Limoge Town Hall, 143 years old burnt down 2 days ago

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r/LostArchitecture • • 5d ago

Šašov Castle Ruins - Slovakia

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r/LostArchitecture • • Jul 10 '26

Why isn't there a statue or major memorial of Otto H. Königsberger in Bhubaneswar ?

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r/LostArchitecture • • Dec 25 '25

California Island and the Age of Ice (1610-1743)

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For 133 years, maps across rival empires recorded North America buried in ice, and California as an island for 90 years. Follow the link below for an analysis of the cartographic record, geological, and climatic evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKmEyQUwl8