 Elsewhere, many churches such as Florence Cathedral and the Abbey Church of Santa Maria Novella, had an interior elevation of two stages, the arcade and clerestory.The façade of a large church, properly referred to as the "West Front", is generally designed to create a powerful impression on the viewer, demonstrating both the might of God and the might of the institution that it represents.One of the best known and most typical of such west fronts is that of Notre-Dame de Paris.