Walking Tour in A Little Vatican, Oudenbosch || The Netherlands.

The Basilica of Saints Agatha and Barbara is a Roman Catholic church in Oudenbosch, The Netherlands. The church was built between 1867 and 1880 and was elevated to a minor basilica in 1912. The church is a reduced copy of St. Peter's Basilica, with the front of St. John Lateran in Rome. The architects are P.J.H. Cuypers and G.J. from Swaay.
The basilica is 81 meters long (St. Peter's Rome is 220 meters long), 55 meters wide and the highest point of the dome is 63 meters. There is one large dome (20 meters in diameter and 51 meters high) and several smaller domes. The dome can be climbed via a narrow staircase and the paintings on the inside of the dome can be viewed up close. You enter the store via the domed stairs.

Under the dome is a Latin inscription:
TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM


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