Vault is an architectural structure of curved cover.
A vaulted ceiling is the top of a building made in a spherical way. A dome is also shaped like a dome, with the difference that the word dome is used to refer to the highest point of a building, the top of the building.
The etymology of the word vault goes back to the Latin word come back, which means overturned or curved. The root of the term is in the Latin verb return, which is to roll or rotate.
In English, vault is vault.
There are indications that the first vaults would have been built during the Neolithic period, in 6000 BC. C., in the region of South America where Chile is today.
The Roman Empire improved these spherical constructions, spreading them throughout Europe and the Middle East at the time, mainly in the construction of spas. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church makes use of vaulted ceilings for its churches all over the world, especially during the period of influence of Gothic architecture.
Learn more about the meaning of Gothic.
Celestial dome
Heavenly vault is an expression that corresponds to the space of the sky that is seen from the earth, also called firmament. It is a concept of astronomy that uses spherical trigonometry calculations to study the stars.
O ceiling of a masonic temple it is also called the celestial vault. This is because the rituals of Freemasonry require that the place where the rites are performed has a vaulted ceiling, painted blue with reproductions of stars, to resemble the firmament.
