Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York

Cathedral of St John the Divine is the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York located in the Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan's Morningside Heights in New York, United States of America. The construction of the cathedral started in 1892 after the Romanesque-Byzantine design made George Heins and Christopher Grant Lafarge which redesigned in French Gothic Style by American architect Ralph Adams Cram in 1911.

The first services in the nave were held only one day before the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor. The construction of the Cathedral of St John the divine stopped after the USA entered the World War II and was renewed under bishop the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr. in 1979. At the time of writing only about two-thirds of the cathedral are completed. Although unfinished Cathedral of St John the Divine is the largest cathedral in the United States and third largest Christian church in the world.

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