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Memorial Carillon (in honor
of Rockefeller’s mother) is the
largest in the world, with
74 bells. The 20-ton Bourdon,
or hour bell, is the largest and
heaviest tuned carillon bell ever
cast. The organ, with its 22,000
pipes, is among the largest in
the world.
At the rear of the second
gallery is a figure by Jacob Mosaic mural in Grant’s Tomb showing Grant (right) and Robert E. Lee
Epstein, Christ in Majesty, cast
in plaster and covered in 6 Grant’s Tomb The tomb was dedicated on
gold leaf. Another Epstein W 122nd St and Riverside Dr. what would have been Grant’s
statue, Madonna and Child, Map 20 D2. Tel (212) 666-1640. 75th birthday, April 27, 1897.
stands in the court next to the q 116th St-Columbia Univ. The parade of 50,000 people,
cloister. The panels of the @ M5. Open 9am–5pm Wed–Sun. along with a flotilla of ten
chancel screen honor eight Closed in bad weather (call ahead), American and five European
men and women whose lives Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. 8 = warships, took more than
have exemplified the teachings ∑ nps.gov/gegr seven hours to pass in review.
of Christ. They range from The interior was inspired
Socrates and Michelangelo to This grandiose monument by Napoleon’s tomb at Les
Florence Nightingale and honors America’s 18th Invalides in Paris. Each
Booker T. Washington. president, Ulysses S. Grant, sarcophagus weighs 8.5 tons.
For quiet reflection, enter the commanding general Two exhibit rooms feature
the small, secluded Christ of the Union forces displays on Grant’s
Chapel, patterned after in the Civil War. personal life and his
an 11th-century The mausoleum presidential and
Romanesque church contains the military career.
in France. coffins of General Surrounding the
The church is Grant and north and east
particularly welcom- his wife, in sides of the
ing during the accordance building are 17
holiday season, with the sinuously curved
as the public is president’s last mosaic benches
invited to wish that they that seem totally
a host of be buried out of keeping
festive activi- together. After with the formal
ties such Grant’s death in architecture of the
as caroling 1885, more than tomb. They were
by candlelight. 90,000 Americans designed in the
contributed early 1970s by
$600,000 to build General Grant on a the Chilean-born
the sepulcher, Civil War campaign Brooklyn artist Pedro
which was inspired Silva and were built
by Mausoleus’s tomb at by 1,200 local volunteers, who
Halicarnassus, one of worked under his supervision.
the Seven Wonders The benches were inspired by
of the Ancient World. the work of Spanish architect
Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. The
mosaics depict subjects ranging
from the Inuit to New York taxis
to Donald Duck.
A short walk north of Grant’s
Tomb is another monument. An
unadorned urn on a pedestal
marks the resting place of a
young child who fell from the
riverbank and drowned. His
grieving father placed a marker
that simply reads: “Erected to
the memory of an amiable child,
St. Claire Pollock, died 15 July
The 21-story Riverside Church, from the north 1797 in his fifth year of his age.”

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