I wish they had pictures posted showing the English style decorative painting of the ceiling and high walls. The dimness of these ones, while it captures the stain glass well, doesn't do justice to the interior.
If only more modern churches were built like this! it must have cost a small fortune though. The parish serves about 11,000 Catholics.
St. Anthony is nice! I like the private chapel. They were able to salvage the steeple, the tabernacle, stations but sadly not the altar from the fire. However, and I hate to nit pick, some things could be better.
pics are very beautifull! I was happily surprised when I visited Saint Bartholomew in tacony for the first time over 20 years back in 2003. It still looked the same!
My wife, brother and myself have gone for mass there on Christmas eve the last couple of years. Choir needs some work though.
Why don't they ripe out the marble and sell it for scrap?
Replace all marble with whitewashed plastered walls.
Get rid of the ornate stain-glass windows and replace them with "attractive" stain glass windows that like this:
I'm voting for the renovated Cathedral of Sacramento (CA)! The renovated Cathedral of Savannah is great, too; the latter was beautifully restored after an earlier bishop had apparently attempted a wreckovation, btw, so there's always hope.
Now THAT is a splendid church!
Construction of new churches still cost a "small fortune." Why not spend a few more million and make it beautiful?
For 200 million dollars, this...
... was replaced with this:
Beautiful church. I have seen a few like that, but many more that have been desecrated.
I went to one of my grandsons' first communions, to a Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and saw something similar recently. A huge church, like a basilica, all marble and beautiful statues and stained glass windows. An enormous number of little boys and girls with their families, everyone dressed up, waiting to receive First Communion or Communion.
No demographic problem there, like there is in the posher suburbs. And when it was over and we were all filing out, a whole new crowd of children and families came in the other door. The church was as big a basilica, but it turned out that they had to have two services, because the communicants and their families couldn't fit into the church for just one Mass!