St. Patrick Cathedral

St. Patrick 's Cathedral in New York, built between 1853 and 1878 and is located in Midtown skyscraper district of New York, in the heart of the borough of Manhattan. It is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 50th Street , just steps from the Rockefeller Center and nine blocks away from Central Park. It is the main church of the Archdiocese of New York and was built in the nineteenth century in Gothic style on the plans of the architect James Renwick Jr.

The height under the arch is 110 feet. The altars Saint Michel and Saint Patrick was made by Tiffany & Co; that of St. Elizabeth was designed by Paolo Medici of Rome. The Way of the Cross won an art prize at the World Expo 1893 in Chicago. The Pieta is three times bigger than that of Michelangelo. A John Paul II 's bust is located at the rear of the cathedral to commemorate his visit to New York in 1979. Francis Spellman, then archbishop and later cardinal, undertook a major renovation of the organization of the choir in the late 1930s and early 1940s .The former main altar of St. Patrick is now significantly modified and shortened. In the 1980s, Cardinal John O 'Connor has made other changes, including the construction of a new stone altar in the center of the choir, closer and visible from the congregation. The annexes altars materials are used for this purpose, disassembled to move the baptismal font in the north transept.

Its dimensions are 400 feet long and 276 feet wide and its highest point is 330 feet to each of the two arrows flanking the western gate. The building has neither boom nor flying buttresses at the crossing . It is the largest Gothic cathedral of the Catholic North America. St. Patrick 's Cathedral every year about 7 million visitors. The cathedral was built with white marble extracted in New York and Massachusetts The stained glass windows were made by artists in Chartres , Birmingham and Boston. The great rose window is a masterpiece of Charles Connickand measures 26 feet in