On my first visit to the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph I wasn't able to get photos of two of the cathedral's 20 Marian murals. But I had an opportunity to go back and capture images of them.
Week 11: Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church
In week 11, a long walk through Queens led me to a place of beauty, warmth, and respite in a busy corner of Forest Hills.
Week 9: Basilica of Regina Pacis
Brooklyn's third basilica was the creation of parishioners thankful for the safe return of their soldiers from World War II.
Week 8: St. Peter’s Church
A church’s “persistent commitment” to a changing, and perhaps dying, city manifested itself in the bold reimagining of the shape and form of a sacred space at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 54th Street.
Week 7: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
At a corner in one of the busiest shopping and office districts in the world stands a church whose clock tower has kept time for passersby for nearly 150 years.
Week 6: The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
Saturday, 10 February 2018, was a mild but wet and gray midwinter New York day, but the color and warmth of a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Brooklyn — the first I’d ever visited — lingered with me long after I left its doors.
Week 5: The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph
Week 5 of 52 Houses of Worship in 52 Weeks: One of the seats of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn, beautifully restored 2012–14 with impressive new artwork.
Week 3: St. Bartholomew’s Church
Week 3 of 52 Houses of Worship in 52 Weeks: An ornate Romanesque and Byzantine Episcopal church in Midtown Manhattan.
Week 1: The Church of St. Francis Xavier
My first visit in my 52 Houses of Worship in 52 Weeks project took me to the Church of St. Francis Xavier, a Catholic church just west of Union Square in Manhattan.