The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the Mother Church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its Bishop. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 1011 KB) Saint John the Divine, cathedral, front. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ...

Located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (between West 110th Street (a.k.a. "Cathedral Parkway") and 113 Street) in Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the cathedral, though unfinished, is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and is a popular tourist attraction. The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the largest cathedral in the world (neither St Peter's in Rome nor Notre-Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro—both significantly larger than St. John the Divine—are cathedrals). Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side). ... A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy (such as the Roman Catholic Church or the Lutheran or Anglican churches), which serves as the central church of a diocese. ... Besides its original meaning, of or relating to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, the word Gothic has been used to refer to distinctly different things: From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of rough, barbarous), it conveyed... Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton. ... The Basilica of Saint Peter from Castel SantAngelo. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1... The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Côte dIvoire was consecrated in 1990. ...

An unbroken piece of property of 11.5 acres (47,000 m²), on which the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum had stood, was purchased for the cathedral in 1887, and after an open competition a design by the New York firm of George Lewis Heins and John LaFarge in a Byzantine-Romanesque style was accepted the next year. The foundations were completed at enormous expense, largely because bedrock was not struck until the excavation had reached 72 feet. The architect Heins' premature death in 1907 left the Trustees unsure of how to proceed with the artist Lafarge alone. The building as it appears today conforms primarily to a second design campaign from the prolific Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram of the Boston firm Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson. An acre is an English unit of area. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... The 11th-century monastery of Hosios Lukas in Greece is representative of the Byzantine art during the rule of Macedonian dynasty. ... Romanesque St. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ... Cover of Time Magazine (December 13, 1926) Ralph Adams Cram, (December 16, 1863 - September 22, 1942), was an American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the gothic style. ...

Without slavishly copying any one historical model, and without compromising its authentic stone-on-stone construction by using modern steel girders, Saint John the Divine is a refined exercise in the 13th century High Gothic style of northern France. The nave is almost exactly two football fields in length (601 feet or 186 meters) and reaches 124 feet (37.7 meters) high. It is the longest Gothic nave in the world. Seven chapels radiating from the ambulatory behind the choir are each in a distinctive nationalistic style, some of them borrowing from outside the gothic vocabulary. Known as the "Chapels of the Tongues" (Ansgar, Boniface, Columba, Savior, Martin, Ambrose and James), each is meant to represent one of New York's nationalities and ethnic groups who worked on the cathedral. (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... See also Gothic art. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... The ambulatory (Med. ... A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. ...

The first services (in the crypt, under the crossing) were held in 1899. In 1911, the choir and the crossing (which was to be surmounted by a vast crowning spire that has yet to be built) were opened. The crossing is sealed with a "temporary" dome of Guastavino tile finished in 1905. 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Guastavino tile work in NYC City Hall subway station Guastavino tile refers to the Tile Arch System patented in the US in 1885 by Catalan architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The first stone of the nave was laid and the west front was undertaken in 1925. The first services in the nave were held the day before Pearl Harbor. Subsequently construction on the cathedral was halted, because the then-bishop felt that the church's funds would better be spent on works of charity. The Very Rev. James Parks Morton, who became Dean of the Cathedral in 1972, encouraged a revival in the construction of the Cathedral, and in 1979 the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., then Bishop, decided that construction should be continued, in part to preserve the crafts of stonemasonry by training neighborhood youths, thus providing them with a valuable skill. The construction continued until the 1990s; the new generation of stonecarvers have since dispersed. 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Satellite image of Pearl Harbor. ... A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy (such as the Roman Catholic Church or the Lutheran or Anglican churches), which serves as the central church of a diocese. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

The night of December 18, 2001, a fire swept through the unfinished north transept, destroying the gift shop and for a time threatening the sanctuary of the cathedral itself. It temporarily silenced the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ. Although the organ was not damaged, its pipe chambers had to be laboriously cleaned, to prevent damage from the fire's accumulated soot. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In 2003, the Cathedral was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency charged with administering New Yorks Landmarks Preservation Law. ...

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• The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
• General history of St John the Divine.
• Specifications of the Aeolian-Skinner Great Organ, temporarily silenced since the North Transept fire of Dec 18, 2001.
• Divine Service rated and reviewed.
• Satellite Photo of Saint John the Divine