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Just a few facts.
Designed to be a House of Prayer for all
people, the Cathedral
of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is known as the Washington National
Cathedral. It is the sixth largest in the world and the second largest in
the USA. Although a protestant Episcopal Church it has been affiliated
with the government since 1893 but does not get any
funding. Made of grey Indiana limestone it has 200 stained glass windows
that look out on 57 acres of land.
Plans were started in 1907 but the church was not completed to
1990. Took 83 years of work. Only one American president is
buried in the cathedral mausoleum Woodrow Wilson and his 2nd wife
Edith are buried there. As is the famous Helen Keller and her teacher
Anne Sullivan. Also buried there is Admiral George Dewey and a
couple of the architects that worked on the design of the building.
This was where Martin Luther King preached is last sermon from a pulpit
and in a funny twist of fate, Dar Radar from Star Wars is
mounted as a decoration on one of the external walls.
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