Презентация о соборе святого Павла и его создателе.

Just 5 days before the Great Fire of London broke out, in August 1666,a commission met to consider Sir Christopher Wren’s plan to repair old St.Paul`s cathedral. Work began in 1675 when Wren was 43 years old; In 1710, as an old man of 78, he was finally able to sit in the completed cathedral.

Miraculously, the cathedral survived air raids during the Second World War, although most of the buildings surrounding it were destroyed.

St.Paul’s is the cathedral church of the City of London, and although coronations take place in Westminster Abbey, most great ceremonies of state take place in St.Paul’s.It has witnessed many great national events over the centuries, including the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 and the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

The overall impression conveyed by the great interior is of height, light and a kind of intellectual austerity. There are relatively few monuments. The ones that do exist are to important national heroes, predominantly military figures. Lord Nelson and Sir Christopher Wren are both buried in the Cathedral. There are memorials to artists and men of science of Great Britain.

Tourists like to visit the famous Whispering Gallery. The latter forms a circle of such perfect proportions around the base of the dome that by placing your ear against the wall, you can hear a whisper from many yards away as it travels around the circumference.

The immense Baroque dome is 66m above the floor.