Architecture has always been an integral part of society and its culture. It not only defines the space of the community in which it participates, but also shapes the community's place in history. Additionally, historians around the world have found that architecture plays a key role in the study of communities across historical periods. Architecture helps the historian to decipher the daily life of civilization and the values ​​it contains. Historians are able to decipher it by observing the recurring structural features and ornamental features of some buildings from a certain time period. Some of the significant features of the building usually define the political regime or religious values ​​of the civilization. During the 12th and 13th centuries, a certain period of time when the religious faith of Christianity was instilled throughout much of Western civilization. The time when Gothic dominated the realm of expression. Gothic was everywhere; it was in painting, in sculpture and above all in architecture. Gothic architecture can be thoroughly understood through study in the form of cathedrals of the era. The cathedral is the most complete of the various trends brought with Gothic architecture. If there was a catastrophic event in that period where everything was destroyed except the cathedrals, only they could help us define the values ​​and all the questions related to that period. It is an interesting story that cathedrals seek to tell with scholasticism, politics, and religion under the influential umbrella of Christian ideology. While it was very practical and expressive in its own right, a magnificent engineering and symbolic feat; the most notable part......middle of paper......ry of Art. London: Phaidon Press.info.com. (2012). gothic architecture. Retrieved 2013 from info.com: http://topics.info.com/Gothic-Architecture_2245Morris, E. (2011). Exploring castles. Retrieved 2013 from http://www.exploring-castles.com/characteristics_of_gothic_architecture.html#.Uq_mxmRDt95Panofsky, E. (n.d.). Abbot Suger, On the consecration. Princetom vinversity press.Salvadori, M. (1980). Because buildings resist. In M. Salvadori, Why buildings hold up (p. 213). McGraw-Hill.unknown. (n.d.). Gothic cathedrals. Retrieved 2013 from History of Western Civilization: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ddonald/imageassignment/cathedral.htmVerde, T. (2012, May). saudiaramcoworld. Excerpt from Point of the Arc (this article appeared on pages 34-43 of the print edition of Saudi Aramco World): http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201203/the.point.of.the.arch. htm