title: 1080s in architecture
text: # 1080s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * 1080
     * Rebuilding of Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse begun.
     * Construction of Cluny Abbey III in France, begun.
  * 1081
     * Surviving Chora Church in Constantinople completed (begun in 1077).
     * Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, Spain completed (begun in 1065).
     * Old Mainz Cathedral destroyed by a fire, marking the beginning of the construction of the building which survives to the modern day.
  * 1082 – Great Mosque of Tlemcen built in the Almoravid Empire.
  * 1083 – Surviving Ely Cathedral in England begun.
  * 1086 – Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung-U completed.
  * before 1087 – Construction of the Church of Christ Pantepoptes in Constantinople begun.
  * 1087
     * White Tower (Tower of London) in England finished (begun in 1078).
     * Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Apulia, begun.
  * 1088
     * Rebuilding of Cluny Abbey in France begun.
     * Eynsford Castle in England built.
  * 1089 – Romanesque stage of St Albans Cathedral in England completed.
  * Chora Church (1081)
  * Romanesque Mainz Cathedral (begun 1081)
  * Aljaferia Palace of Zaragoza (1081)
  * Great Mosque of Tlemcen (1082)
  * Church of Christ Pantepoptes (begun before 1087)
  * White Tower of London (1087)
  * St Albans Cathedral (1089)
  
  ## Births
  
  * c. 1081 – Abbot Suger (died 1151), French abbot-statesman and patron of Gothic architecture.
  