Madrid, Spain
1617
Madrid, Spain
1738-1755
Madrid, Spain
1879
Madrid, Spain
1786-1795
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1992
Madrid, Spain
1992
Madrid, Spain
1559
Madrid, Spain
1972
Madrid, Spain
1778
Madrid, Spain
1819
Madrid, Spain
1933
Madrid, Spain
1867
Madrid, Spain
1944
Madrid, Spain
1761-1768
Madrid, Spain
1792-1798
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.