Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois [OC]

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View down the nave of the beautiful and brightly-lit church, the floor of which has geometrical designs and two rows of pews stretching into the distance. Like a European cathedral, it has two aisles marked by ribbed stone columns supporting pointed arches. Above the arches are what look like walls of green marble panels and, above them, small stained glass windows. The ceiling is most distinctive, made entirely of some sort of dark wood carved or positioned to resemble ribbing which forms a grid design over the entire ceiling. In the distance are the windows of the curving wall of the apse.

Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois [OC]

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I’ve been contemplating visiting Chicago with my wife. When I showed her this pic, she said “Cool cathedral beats weird liver thing!”

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The Bean? Lmao I need to start calling it the weird liver thing.

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FWIW, didn’t the designer get pissed that everyone was able to enjoy it for free, and wanted to fence it off? 🤌🏼

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Just look at what all that fear-grifted money can buy! How majestic, how divine, how heaven-on-Earth it all is. 😱 And, not a single poor person in sight! Just as <insert god> intended! 🙄

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It is possible to appreciate the architecture and not act as righteous as the Catholic church

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Only if you force yourself not to consider the generations of oppression, insidious fraud, outright murder, and rampant brainwashing from the cradle to beyond the grave, sure. Maybe. I guess. That’s not a habit I wanna accidentally train myself into, though. Do you?

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What do those letters in the ceiling mean? I’m especially confused by the h with a crossbar on it

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