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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Washington D.C. It is the largest Catholic church building in North America [2] and is also the tallest habitable building in Washington, D.C. [3] [4] [a] Its construction of Byzantine and Romanesque Revival architecture began on 23 September 1920.
Other notable events at the cathedral include a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit to Washington, D.C., [10] and the 1997 funeral of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. [11] The cathedral was the site of a Lutheran funeral service for Chief Justice William Rehnquist on September 7, 2005. [12] [13 ...
In June 2015, Washington National Cathedral leaders said the church needed $200 million, which would both complete repairs and expand its endowment to give the cathedral financial stability. The cathedral began working on a capital fundraising campaign, which The New York Times said was one of the largest ever by an American religious ...
This is a list of cathedrals in the United States, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal Christian groups, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and the Armenian Apostolic Church) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations that have the word "cathedral" in their names.
Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral: Diocese of Bardstown: 1819–1841 Basilica of St. Louis, King of France: Archdiocese of St. Louis: 1818–1914 Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral: Archdiocese of New York: 1815–1879 [3] Basilica of the Immaculate Conception: Diocese of Natchitoches: 1853–1910 [4] Basilica Shrine of St. Mary
The Archdiocese of Washington (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Catholic University of America [6] and Georgetown ...
Largest Pentecostal church St. Vitus Cathedral: 7,440 [citation needed] 1344–1929 Prague Czech Republic: Catholic Basilica Natn. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: 7,097 [39] 10,234 10,000 1920–2017 Washington, DC United States: Catholic Interior area only for the upper church / upper floor. [39] Cathedral of La Plata: 6,968 [citation needed]
The 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m 2) building is built on 12 acres (4.9 ha) adjacent to The Catholic University of America and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast Washington.