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7 St. Patrick’s Cathedral . Lady Chapel
This chapel honors
The Roman Catholic Church originally intended the Blessed Virgin. The
this site for use as a cemetery, but in 1850 stained-glass windows
Archbishop John Hughes decided to build a portray the mysteries of
the rosary.
cathedral instead. Many thought that it was
foolish to build so far beyond the (then) city
limits, but Hughes went ahead anyway. The
result was New York’s finest Gothic Revival
build ing, and one of the largest Catholic
cathe drals in the US. The cathedral, which
seats 2,500 people, was com pleted in 1878,
though the spires were added between
1885 and 1888.

Pietà
American
sculptor William
O. Partridge
created this
Pietà in 1906.
The statue
stands at the
side of the
Lady Chapel.

The cathedral’s Fifth
Avenue facade

. Baldachin
The great baldachin rising
over the high altar is made Stations of the Cross
entirely of bronze. Statues Carved of Caen stone in Holland,
of the saints and prophets these reliefs won first prize in the
adorn the four piers field of religious art at the Chicago
supporting the canopy. World’s Fair in 1893.

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