A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a rough
The Burj Khalifa holds the record of the tallest spire in the world, with the height of 244 m (801 ft)
Spire of Salisbury Cathedral (completed 1320), 123 m (404 ft)
Chartres Cathedral. The Flamboyant Gothic North Tower (finished 1513) (left) and Romanesque South Tower (1144–1150) (right)
Crown spire on the High Kirk, Edinburgh.
A church is a building used for Christian worship services and Christian activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between AD 233 and AD 256. The word church also
Trieste Cathedral, a church located in Italy dedicated to Saint Justus (1320)
A village church in South Sudan
South facade of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria, is considered to be one of the oldest surviving ruins of a church building in the world.