Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1861
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1671-1678
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1128
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
18th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1670/1820
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1375-1425
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1590
Queensferry, United Kingdom
1882-1890
Visby Cathedral (also known as St. Mary’s Church) is the only survived medieval church in Visby. It was originally built for German merchants and inaugurated in 1225. Around the year 1350 the church was enlarged and converted into a basilica. The two-storey magazine was also added then above the nave as a warehouse for merchants.
Following the Reformation, the church was transformed into a parish church for the town of Visby. All other churches were abandoned. Shortly after the Reformation, in 1572, Gotland was made into its own Diocese, and the church designated its cathedral.
There is not much left of the original interior. The font is made of local red marble in the 13th century. The pulpit was made in Lübeck in 1684. There are 400 graves under the church floor.