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Old Posted Oct 28, 2011, 6:32 PM
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As mentioned, Unity Temple - OP - FLW


My "church" as a kid - North Shore Unitarian

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The inset windows made it very easy to climb, the skylight unfortunately allowed our parents to see us up on the roof during service.
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And another very climbable church, from my hometown of Waukegan - St Anastasia.
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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, taken from the Mark Hopkins Hotel.
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St. James Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, CA
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It's no where near the biggest or baddest church in the world, but I've yet to personally visit a church as awe-inspiring as the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle in central Paris:


Claudia

Locally, I like the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak in Metro Detroit:


Patricia Drury

Also, not necessarily huge, but I have a thing for the gothic and romanesque catholic churches in around downtown Detroit...

Sweetest Heart of Mary


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St. Josaphat


gsgeorge


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St. Joseph


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Ste-Anne de Detroit


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St. Mary


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St. Florian (Hamtramck)


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Detroit catholics really loved them some red-brick.
You're forgetting the one neer bloomfeild hills, I think its called the kirk?
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LOL, Harry, I'm not at all surprised you were raised as a Unitarian. For some reason you just seem like one to me. Haha.
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LOL, Harry, I'm not at all surprised you were raised as a Unitarian. For some reason you just seem like one to me. Haha.
My mom's service at the Unitarian Church - many spoke of how she and her friends were such rabble rousers protesting atmospheric testing of nukes, the Vietnam War, and generally for the environment.

Note the Saturn-V in the stained glass.


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Probably the coolest art deco church I know of, Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa:





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This church looks epic! Great find
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cathedral basilica of Christ the king, Hamilton



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You're forgetting the one neer bloomfeild hills, I think its called the kirk?
Kirk in the Hills. It's a (spectacular) Presbyterian church built in the 1950's, essentially as a replica of a Scottish abbey. My parents live directly across the street.

There's another amazing church in Bloomfield Hills - Christ Church Cranbrook. Probably one of the more impressive Episcopal churches in the U.S.
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Washington, DC Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I'm kinda surprised that in all these years no one in this thread has mentioned the very tallest and pointiest of the Latter-day Saint temples, in Washington, DC.


Source: Aaron Nuffer, https://churchofjesuschristtemples.o...n-d.c.-temple/

It's technically in Kensington, Maryland, but it serves the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who live throughout the National Capital Region, and it's a major landmark seen from the Beltway. It's the tallest temple the church has ever built, at 288 feet to the top of the eastern spire, and it's a fine example of late mid-century modernist architecture all around, having been originally completed in 1974 following nearly six years of construction.

It's one of the few temples to prominently feature brightly-colored art glass windows on the exterior, rather than the relatively more understated stuff seen on most other temples. The eastern and western corners of the main body of the temple feature brightly illuminated strips of stained glass running from ground to roof, and smaller windows of the same style are seen on either side of the main entrance. Other than that, the main body of the temple doesn't feature windows. Instead, certain sections of the walls themselves are composed of translucently thin marble. I haven't had any luck finding an interior photo of that effect, though.

The temple recently underwent a major renovation, and once large gatherings of people are considered safe again, post-pandemic, it will be opened up for a multi-week open house, where anyone may visit the temple for a tour of the interior. After such open houses, Latter-day Saint temples are dedicated for sacred use only by members of the church, though many, including this one, have visitors' centers open to the public. The open house is nonetheless a rare opportunity, and I'd encourage any fans of religious architecture living within a day-trip's travel distance of DC to check it out, hopefully sometime in early-to-mid-2021. This video explains a little more about it, albeit with outdated information with regard to the actual scheduling. It also features some cool drone footage and a few interior renderings.

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Press release re: open house postponement, with stills of those interior renderings: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist...dication-dates

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St. Peter Cathedral - Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (1873)





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Saints Peter and Paul Church



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Kirk in the Hills. It's a (spectacular) Presbyterian church built in the 1950's, essentially as a replica of a Scottish abbey. My parents live directly across the street.

There's another amazing church in Bloomfield Hills - Christ Church Cranbrook. Probably one of the more impressive Episcopal churches in the U.S.
That comment is ten years old...

There are dozens of churches in Detroit city proper not in his post that blow away Kirk in the hills, I'm not even sure why I mentioned it.

Like this one which recently became a Basilica, Ste. Anne de Detroit.


https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/ste-...RxbnaSWROSYDnw


https://ste-anne.org/home/home-page-main-jpg/

I just realized he DID mention it but the photo is gone, lol.
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I'd be surprised if this hasn't already been posted, but here's The Baltimore Basilica - the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States, first consecrated in 1821.



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Another Baltimore beauty - the Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, first consecrated in 1872.



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