Faisal Mosque in Pakistan has been featured amongst the top 50 most beautiful buildings in the world.
The world’s fifth-largest and South Asia’s largest mosque has been ranked as the 16th most beautiful building in the world by Roofing Megastore.
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Roofing Megastore conducted a study and analyzed 100 most famous architectural works in the world and compared them against the dimensions of the “golden ratio” to determine their visual attraction to the human eye.
“The fifth largest mosque in the world is striking from every angle, featuring a contemporary eight-sided design that’s inspired by a typical Bedouin tent. Taking a decade to build, today Faisal Mosque is a major tourist attraction in Pakistan while remaining an important place of worship,” Roofing Megastore described.
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Meanwhile, Roofing Megastore has crowned St. Paul’s Cathedral in London as the most beautiful building in the world followed by Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore and Westminster Abbey in London.
The Golden Ratio explains ‘the perfectly symmetrical relationship between two proportions’, and it has been used by various notable historical artists and architects including Michelangelo, to create pleasing compositions.
For this study, Roofing Megastore plotted the ‘most common points found on the front-on ‘faces’ of each of the buildings, including the top and bottom corners, the building’s center, and equidistant points around the circumference, before comparing the distance between these markers to those laid out by the ratio’.
The Top 20 Most Beautiful Buildings in the World are:
Ranking | Building Name | Percentage Alignment to the Golden Ratio | Year Completed | Country |
1 | St. Paul’s Cathedral | 72.28 | 1710 | England |
2 | Marina Bay Sands | 70.88 | 2010 | Singapore |
3 | Westminster Abbey | 70.50 | 1745 | England |
4 | Osaka Castle | 70.38 | 1583 | Japan |
5 | St. Basil’s Cathedral | 69.10 | 1561 | Russia |
6 | Casa Mila | 68.64 | 1912 | Spain |
7 | Florence Cathedral | 67.52 | 1436 | Italy |
8 | Taj Mahal | 67.45 | 1653 | India |
9 | Dancing House | 66.87 | 1996 | Czech Republic |
10 | Neuschwanstein Castle | 63.10 | 1886 | Germany |
11 | Cologne Cathedral | 61.69 | 1880 | Germany |
12 | St. Peter’s Basilica | 61.47 | 1626 | Vatican City |
13 | St. Louis Cathedral | 58.10 | 1850 | USA |
14 | Petra | 57.12 | Tth Century BC | Jordan |
15 | Cathedral of Brasilia | 55.79 | 1970 | Brazil |
16 | Faisal Mosque | 55.23 | 1986 | Pakistan |
17 | The White House | 53.31 | 1800 | USA |
18 | Brandenberg Gate | 52.56 | 1791 | Germany |
19 | Great Pyramid of Piza | 52.35 | 2560BC | Egypt |
20 | Milan Cathedral | 50.30 | 1965 | Italy |
Proud that cathedrals inculcate science in architecture.