Roskilde Cathedral on Zealand lists Absalon and Peder Sunesen as architects in the infobox, and the article names no client. The infobox gives a start of about 1170, while the text says Absalon began expanding an earlier travertine cathedral soon after becoming bishop in 1157.
The infobox lists French Gothic, Dutch Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Byzantine Revival and Modernist styles, and the text adds Romanesque and Gothic. It is mainly brick, with travertine, sandstone, granite and marble. It is 282 feet (86 m) long, 89 feet (27 m) wide and 248 feet (75.7 m) high. The choir was inaugurated in 1225, and the infobox gives 1636 for completion.
A fire in 1443 damaged it, and the Treaty of Roskilde was signed there in 1658. UNESCO listed it in 1995. It is an active Lutheran cathedral and the royal burial church, with over 165,000 visitors a year. The article gives no hours.
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