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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Twelve colossal marble apostles line the nave of Copenhagen's cathedral, leading the eye toward Bertel Thorvaldsen's serene Christ figure above the altar - a sculptural programme so dominant that the building is sometimes described as more Thorvaldsen's church than the architect's. The site on Norregade has carried a church since the late 1100s, when Bishop Absalon's successors raised a chalk-stone Church of Our Lady that was completed around 1209. Fire and war treated its successors brutally: t...