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List of octagonal buildings and structures

Octagon buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

The oldest surviving octagon-shaped building is the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, which was constructed circa 300 B.C.; the Pharos also had octagonal design elements but no longer stands. Octagon houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century and there are too many to list here, see instead the list of octagon houses. There are also octagonal houses built in other times and cultures.

Below is a list of octagonal buildings and structures worldwide, excluding houses and windmills.

Australia

Canada

At least 19 historic octagon houses are known to exist in Canada distributed across 4 eastern provinces. For a list of these houses, See: List of octagon houses. In Canada, the octagon house craze also engendered an octagonal deadhouse phenomenon. This included octagonal deadhouses, pre-burial edifices, built in the mid to late 1800s along Yonge Street in south-central Ontario, from just north of Toronto to Aurora.

China

Egypt

Ethiopia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

India

Iran

Israel

Italy

Japan

New Zealand

  • The Octagon, the former Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch, New Zealand

Norway

Portugal

  • Convent of Christ (Tomar, Portugal), 12th-15th Century. The adjacent chapel is only one of two octagonal chapels in the world. The other is in Jerusalem.
  • Charola, Portuguese Info on the Chapel of the Convent of Christ.

Singapore

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

See also

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