Word: reredoses
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Bishop Manning's first ambition is to tear down the reredos, a carved stone screen built behind the high altar in 1909. Removing it, he said, will make the west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of...
The most beautiful Byzantine apse in the U. S. was dedicated last Sunday not in a Greek Orthodox church but in Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist. With its glowing gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate...
With organ and trumpeters pealing melody, a congregation of 12,000 joined in singing God of Our Fathers as a long, brilliant procession streamed into the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some...
In money-raising, 1? worth of publicity equals $1 worth of donations. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Providence, R. I. was getting publicity last week by "laying a mile of dimes." To raise money for a new altar and reredos, every parishioner pledged at least 17 dimes...
The chapel (almost finished last week) is to be the jewel of the entire structure. Here small weddings, funerals and special religious services which require no more than 200 seats are to be conducted. The chapel, like the entire church, is replete with symbolism. But, although the church is modeled...