Date of construction - unknown
Date of major alteration - mid 19th century
For starters, we're being asked to believe that this is the work of toothless illiterates who lived by candlelight
Notice the original project had a semi-circular colonnade
Gee, where else do we see such things ?
Given the numbers of granite columns, this must have been some sort of power station - the columns being the capacitors in which the generated charge was stored
And then there's the dome - actually, three of them stacked on top of each other
The outer dome is covered in gold with a strange installation on top - and the ubiquitous fractal antenna that was retconned as a religious symbol