“The Crystal Palace occupies the Park, an imposing edifice of brown sandstone.”
“Yet it was impossible to enter the magnificent edifice without sensing that it was still the basilica of Justinian.”
“We have built a whole superstructure, a constitutional edifice, on that basis.”
edification
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral, emotional, or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; through encouragement and instruction.