Got Blessed Real Good at the National Cathedral!!!

[Hvymax]

 

[turd]

OK.

 

[Snake45]

Very Most Way Cool!

My old girlfriend lived just a few blocks from there, and I drove by the place many times. There was always scaffolding over much of it. She told me that it had been "under construction" for decades and there was no end in sight. Did they ever "finish" it?

 

[Hvymax]

There was a lot of damage from the Earthquake 20 some years ago. It's mostly done now I believe.

 

[protoolman]

Just curious, what is your bike?

 

[contender]

Very nice!

 

[noahmercy]

Just curious, what is your bike?

Looks like a KLR650, Claymore edition...😆

 

[Bob Wright]

I was unaware we had a National Cathedral. How can this be? Thought all religion was banned from Government?

Bob Wright

 

[Ranger]

Went there and listened to a service a few years ago. Pretty impressive.

 

[RSIno1]

I was unaware we had a National Cathedral. How can this be? Thought all religion was banned from Government?

Bob Wright

In 1792, Pierre L'Enfant's "Plan of the Federal City" specified a site for a "great church for national purposes". However he defined it as non-sectarian and nondenominational. Hamilton modified that plan and eliminated the "church" and several other proposed monuments and that plan was never reproduced. The working plan for the new city was subsequently produced by Andrew Ellicott and it varied in many respects from L'Enfant's although the essence remained. National Portrait Gallery now occupies that site. In 1891, a meeting was held to begin plans for an Episcopal cathedral in Washington. On January 6, 1893, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia was granted a charter from Congress to establish the cathedral. The 52nd United States Congress declared in the act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia that the "said corporation is hereby empowered to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia a cathedral and institutions of learning for the promotion of religion and education and charity."[8] The commanding site on Mount Saint Alban was chosen.

The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, under the first seven Bishops of Washington, erected the cathedral under a charter passed by the United States Congress on January 6, 1893.[5] Construction began on September 29, 1907, when the foundation stone was laid in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt and a crowd of more than 20,000, and ended 83 years later when the "final finial" was placed in the presence of President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Decorative and restorative work, particularly of damage from a nearby earthquake in 2011, is ongoing as of 2023.

 

[powder smoke]

I was unaware we had a National Cathedral. How can this be? Thought all religion was banned from Government?

Bob Wright

Think again!

 

[Snake45]

Think again!

Bob, you just proved something my Late Great Dad used to say: "You learn something new every day, if you're not careful."

 

[protoolman]

While we have freedom of religion We have never been guaranteed freedom FROM religion. Just look at your money. In God we trust...etc.

 

[Hvymax]

Just curious, what is your bike?

Slightly Modified KLR 650.

 

[Hvymax]

I was unaware we had a National Cathedral. How can this be? Thought all religion was banned from Government?

Bob Wright

They built it in the 1900's.

 

[James also]

In 1792, Pierre L'Enfant's "Plan of the Federal City" specified a site for a "great church for national purposes". However he defined it as non-sectarian and nondenominational. Hamilton modified that plan and eliminated the "church" and several other proposed monuments and that plan was never reproduced. The working plan for the new city was subsequently produced by Andrew Ellicott and it varied in many respects from L'Enfant's although the essence remained. National Portrait Gallery now occupies that site. In 1891, a meeting was held to begin plans for an Episcopal cathedral in Washington. On January 6, 1893, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia was granted a charter from Congress to establish the cathedral. The 52nd United States Congress declared in the act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia that the "said corporation is hereby empowered to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia a cathedral and institutions of learning for the promotion of religion and education and charity."[8] The commanding site on Mount Saint Alban was chosen.

The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, under the first seven Bishops of Washington, erected the cathedral under a charter passed by the United States Congress on January 6, 1893.[5] Construction began on September 29, 1907, when the foundation stone was laid in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt and a crowd of more than 20,000, and ended 83 years later when the "final finial" was placed in the presence of President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Decorative and restorative work, particularly of damage from a nearby earthquake in 2011, is ongoing as of 2023.

Thank You for the information!

 

[RSIno1]

While we have freedom of religion We have never been guaranteed freedom FROM religion. Just look at your money. In God we trust...etc.

While freedom of religion is always touted as one of the reasons for coming to America in the 1600s it did not exist. You were required to go to church and you were required to practice the religion of your town or colony. The Portsmouth Compact of 1638 was signed by a group of Boston dissidents, mostly Quakers who disagreed with the Puritans. The town they established in Rhode Island is recognized as the first place to not require a specific dogma/religion. In only one sentence they set up their whole government that was "freedom of" but not "from".......
"We whose names are underwritten do hereby solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into A Body Politick and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given in His holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."
The Compact did not require any allegiance to the King so some argue it's also the first Declaration of Independence from England. But that apparent oversight was covered in 1639 where the town fathers issued another Compact to follow the "King's laws of civil justice".

 

[Yaworski]

I was unaware we had a National Cathedral. How can this be? Thought all religion was banned from Government?

Any church can build a cathedral and call it "the National Cathedral." Both the OCA and the Greek Orthodox have cathedrals in DC and refer to them as their "national cathedrals".

 

[Yaworski]

I've toured the National Cathedral a couple times. Very impressive building. There's a moon rock embedded in one of the windows and one of the grotesques is Darth Vader.

My kids were confirmed there. That gave me access to parts of the building that I hadn't seen before. There are "cells" in the basement for visiting clerics as well as classrooms.

 

[Dave P.]

My wife dragged me into it in 2019 a day after the Marine Corps marathon. We spent about 4 hours wandering around in it.
Impressive place, I liked all the ornate little " mini-chapels" in the lower levels, the place is a maze.
We got up and went to the Navy museum in the morning then to the Cathedral in the afternoon, not exactly my thing but
ended up enjoying it.