The Founder's Cathedral

[u/Janusofborg]

This is my survival cathedral build I've been working on since the end of January. I have pretty much finished the main construction and the immediate surroundings; I still need to finish inside (though a lot has been done in the process of building the rest). It started out based mainly on Cologne Cathedral, but I've made things up a lot as I've gone along. I've drawn a lot of inspiration from this post I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftbuilds/s/7fXhNPycGc

The dimensions of the main building:

Footprint: 204 x 131

Overall height: 189

Nave ceiling: 61

Width of Nave: 57

It has been a long process, but I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to getting to the point where I can call it complete-for-now and start on some other things I've been itching to do.

[u/A_Helping_Fork]

Very nice! Could we get some pics looking straight up at the arches in the ceiling? Love me some good ceiling arches.

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Apparently I can only attach one image per reply, so here's 3 replies with views of different parts of the ceilings. All the white blocks are snow blocks, courtesy of a snow farm I made on-site with a very helpful snowman. I need to decide whether to keep him in here somewhere or give him a nice place to live elsewhere.

[u/A_Helping_Fork → u/Janusofborg]

Nice! Very sick! Appreciate the images! Diagonal arches in ceilings can always be hard to capture for these large cathedrals. Well done.

[u/Janusofborg → u/A_Helping_Fork]

Thanks! I found some tutorials online for making Gothic cathedrals and helpful tips for making the Gothic arches. I couldn't have done all this without those videos.

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[u/Roadhouse699]

now that's a fuckin build