st. paul's cathedral:





st paul's cathedral is visited by a large number of people from across the world every day. there had been a cathedral devoted to st paul at its site since 604 a.d. and the present one is the fourth constructed after the previous one was destroyed in the great london fire of 1666. its architect was sir christopher wren. the building is very magnificient. its dome is one of the largest among the cathedrals of the world. though it is a place of worship, it has honoured a few of the britain's national heroes by giving them a place in its crypt (the cathedral's burial chamber in the basement) or erecting their statues or putting up a memorial chapel. in my view it shows how the religion looks at the people who have contributed to the great history of the nation. the crypt holds the tombs of lord nelson, duke of wellington, florence nightingale, painter j m w turner, poet william blake and architect sir christopher wren. among the several statues placed in the cathedral were those of the military leaders of east india company, who fought the war of oudh in lucknow, india, and a judge of the high court of bengal and lord cornwallis, who died in ghazeepur while moving to take charge in bengal. please visit http://www.stpauls.co.uk/ for details and for my photographs, please visit http://picasaweb.google.com/mlkesarwani/StPaulSCathedral