Rotunda (architecture)

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A rotunda is any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being within the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.). The Pantheon in Rome is a famous rotunda. A Band Rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome.

Notable Rotundas

Religious buildings

The Pantheon, Rome, Italy, originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the state religion of Ancient Rome.
The Church of the Rotonda in Thessaloniki, built as the "Tomb of Galerius" in 306 AD.
The St George Rotunda in Sofia, Bulgaria, a 4th-century Early Christian church
St. George Cathedral Church at Zvartnots, Armenia
St. Martin's Rotunda in Vyšehrad Castle, Prague, Czech Republic
The Rotunda of St Marija Assunta in Mosta, Malta

Buildings for entertainment

The large Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in London, built in the 1740s and demolished in 1805. It was painted by Canaletto.
The Pantheon, London, opened 1772, demolished in 1937.
The internal Rotunda in the Michael Maddox Petrovsky Theatre, Moscow (burnt down in 1805).
The Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland (formerly the Rotunda Hospital, built in 1757).
The Roundhouse in London, originally built in 1847 as a turntable engine shed, it was used as a gin store till being converted into a theatre in the 1960s.
The Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Houses

Rotunda (architecture)

Notable Rotundas

Religious buildings

Buildings for entertainment

Houses

Buildings for learning

Government buildings

Office buildings

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