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A pillar is another word for a column, which is a vertical support structure in architecture.

Pillar may also mean:

  • Pillar (band), a rock band
  • Pillar (Lake District), a fell in the English Lake District
  • A door pillar on a car
  • Paul Pillar, retired CIA National Intelligence Officer (publicly criticized Bush administration)
  • City Pillars, South African football (soccer) club

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  • National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C.

    National Capitol Columns at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.

  • Riskdagen Eduskunta Helsingfors (2)

    Columns of the Parliament House in Helsinki, Finland

  • Monument Gordon 02

    Column of the Gordon Monument in Waterloo.

  • 營造法式六 20

    Dragon pillar from the Yingzao Fashi, Song dynasty

  • Persepolis Colonne flandin

    Plan, front view and side view of a typical Persepolis column, of Persia (Iran)

  • Yksityiskohta

    A granite structure column by Hilma Flodin-Rissanen in Vyborg

  • ColumnEffectiveLength

    Table showing values of K for structural columns of various end conditions (adapted from Manual of Steel Construction, 8th edition, American Institute of Steel Construction, Table C1.8.1)

  • The grammar of ornament (1868) (14587326250)

    Illustration of papyriform capitals, in The Grammar of Ornament

  • Lepsius-Projekt tw 1-2-108

    Illustration of various types of capitals, drawn by the egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius

  • Mammisi Philae2

    Columns with Hathoric capitals

  • The double row of columns with papyrus bundle capitals - The Court of Amonhotep III - Luxor Temple (14075179947)

    Papyriform columns of the Luxor Temple

  • Knossos 03

    Minoan columns at the West Bastion of the Palace of Knossos

  • EB1911 Capital Fig. 5 Early Greek Capital from the Tomb of Agamemnon, Mycenae

    Illustration of the end of a Mycenaean column, from the Tomb of Agamemnon

  • Fotothek df tg 0001022 Architektur ^ Säule ^ dorische Ordnung ^ Brücke

    Illustration of the Tuscan order

  • DoricParthenon

    Illustration of the Doric order

  • Ionic order J.L.Leroy

    Illustration of the Ionic order

  • Evolution of the Corinthian Capital 138

    Evolution of the Corinthian order

  • Fotothek df tg 0001039 Architektur ^ Säule ^ komposite Ordnung

    Illustration of the Composite order

  • Femme en priere entre deux colonnes ioniques - Louvre

    Praying Woman between two ionic columns, 2nd century, marble, in the Louvre

  • SantApollinare Nuovo Pulpito marmoreo

    Byzantine columns from Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy)

  • Hagia Sophia (15468276434)

    The capital of a Byzantine column from Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)

  • Igreja de São Tiago, Coimbra. Capiteis y colunelos

    Romanesque columns from the 12th century

  • Neuwiller StPierre-Paul 117

    Gothic columns of a church from Neuwiller-lès-Saverne (France)

  • Gelnhausen, Marienkirche, Südportal-20160804-007

    Slender Gothic columns at a portal of Marienkirche Gelnhausen [de] (Gelnhausen, Germany)

  • 20131204 Istanbul 085

    Column use is common in Ottoman architecture, an example in Topkapı Palace (Istanbul, Turkey)

  • Decorated pillars. Mosque. Kashgar

    Decorated pillars. Mosque. Kashgar

  • Great Hypostyle Hall

    The Great Hypostyle Hall from Karnak (Egypt)

  • Columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece

    Columns found at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi

  • Rocaille detail in a column - St. Peter - Mainz - Germany 2017

    Rococo detail of a column from St. Peter's Church (Mainz, Germany)

  • Solomonic columns at St Peters Vatican (cropped)

    At right, two of the Solomonic columns brought to Rome by Constantine, in their present-day location on a pier in St. Peter's Basilica (Rome). In the foreground at left is part of Bernini's Baldachin, inspired by the original columns.

  • Colonne-p1040009

    Ionic capital

  • Western colonnade at courtyard, UVa 2004

    Tuscan columns can be seen at the University of Virginia

  • San prospero colonne reggio emilia

    Church of San Prospero (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

  • Construction of Sigismund Column

    Construction of Sigismund's Column in Warsaw, detail of the 1646 engraving.

  • Columns in the inner court of the Bel Temple Palmyra Syria

    These are composed of stacked segments and finished in the Corinthian style, at the Temple of Bel (Syria)

  • Bankstownreservoir

    The pillars of Bankstown Reservoir (Sydney, Australia)

  • MosqueeKairouan 6bis

    Reused Roman columns and capitals in the Great Mosque of Kairouan

  • France-002353 - Square House (15866951852)

    Engaged columns embedded in the side walls of the cella of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes (France)

See also

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