If you’re in D.C., the National Cathedral is really worth visiting. If nothing else, it’s the sixth largest cathedral in the world–in a city full of monuments, it really is immense. If not, well, I have some pictures for you. From the outside:
View from the back of the cathedral:
Some of the upper level glasswork:
Themes of peace and unity from the Henry White Bay:
From the Humanitarian Bay:
From the Kellog Bay:
Nave on the west side of the cathedral:
David and Goliath Tapestries from St. Mary’s Chapel:
Altar of St. Mary’s:
View from the High Altar:
The High Altar:
Wordwork from the High Altar seating:
St. John’s Chapel:
Children’s Chapel:
Pulpit at the Crossing:
View from the Crossing:
Not sure, but I like it (might be the Baptism Bay):
Abraham Lincoln:
He writes letters:
The Maryland Bay:
Drums in repose:
Window from the George Washington Bay:
The Warren Bay, with symbols of law (Charles, not Earl, Warren):
Sofa cushion celebrating space exploration:
Chapel of St. Jospeh of Arimathea:
Helen Keller’s internment:
A parting view of the west side of the cathedral:
mikethemadbiologist
Very heartening to know we have a National Cathedral, which proclaims itself ” to serve as the spiritual home for the nation”, is officially quasi-Catholic and, I imagine, pays no taxes. For a while there, I thought the those militant atheists were trying to erect some sort of wall between church and state.
Since, according to our Mad Biologist, it seems this is a place of internment (at least for Helen Keller and her lifelong companion Anne Macy), it appears it is not actually a church, but rather one more, albeit beautiful, jail in the glorious US of A. And it seems built to keep you in this life, and probably the next…
Its an Episcopalian church. My mother performed there several times with a church choir when I was growing up. All of those photos and you did not include the window celebrating the first lunar landing and including a moon rock. I don’t know how to link but if you search National Cathedral moon rock window. The best in the Cathedral IMHO.
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