Pending the construction of the new building, the new Parliament of Northern Ireland met in two locations; one in Belfast City Hall, where the state opening of the first Parliament by King George V took place on 22 June 1921, and the other in the nearby Presbyterian Church in Ireland's Assembly's College.

[9] Two separate chambers were provided in the finished parliamentary complex, the blue-benched rectangular House of Commons of Northern Ireland (green benches as at Westminster being considered inappropriate) and the red-benched smaller rectangular Senate of Northern Ireland.

The Kaiser's chandelier had been removed from Windsor Castle and placed in storage during World War I.

It took seven years to remove the "paint", and the exterior façade has never regained its original white colour.

While most traces of it were removed from the façades (though having done damage that can be seen up close), some of the remains of the paint survive in the inner courtyards and unseen parts of the building.

However, no one else supported the demand and the new Northern Ireland Assembly and executive was installed there as its permanent home.

[16] On 3 December 2005, the Great Hall was used for the funeral service of former Northern Ireland and Manchester United footballer George Best.

[17] On 29 September 2012, the grounds were used for an Orange Order parade in memory of the signing of the Ulster Covenant.

[18] On 24 November 2006, Michael Stone (a loyalist paramilitary member) was arrested for breaking into Stormont with an imitation handgun and a knife, and scrawling graffiti on Parliament Buildings itself.

[19] The entire House of Commons chamber was destroyed by a fire on 2 January 1995, blamed on an electrical fault in the wiring below the Speaker's chair.

The British Government, citing the Doyle Report and the findings of the Northern Ireland forensic science laboratory, stated that it was "improbable" that the fire was deliberate.

One painting, which is untitled, depicts the state opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament in 1921.

The message reads: "This inscription records the gratitude of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for the use of this chamber as an operations room by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.