Washington National Cathedral

The Washington National Cathedral is located on Mount Saint Albans in the United State's capital city.

Rose Windows

The Cathedral has three Rose Windows with iconography:

West window - the Creation Window, designed by artist Rowan LeCompte, on the theme of "Let there be light.” The window incorporating a ten petal rose, and predominantly blue with bursts of autumnal colours, is filled with 10,500 pieces of stained glass.
North window - the Last Judgement.
South window - the Church Triumphant.

Cathedral Timeline

6 January 6, 1893 - Congress granted a charter (incorporation papers) to the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia, allowing it to establish a cathedral and institutions of higher learning. Signed by President Benjamin Harrison, this charter is the birth certificate of Washington National Cathedral.
1906 - The chapter voted to build the cathedral in the Gothic style with its architecture modelled upon the Medieval cathedrals of France and England.
29 September 1907 - The first foundation stone was laid in a festive ceremony, in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt and over ten thousand citizens of the United States.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson attended official thanksgiving service for the end of the First World War.
1928 - President Calvin Coolidge opened the General Convention of the Episcopal Church at the Cathedral.
October 1929 - Stock market crash and the depression slowed construction.
31 March 1968 - Martin Luther King delivered his "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" address in the pulpit of the Cathedral.
1976 - The west rose window dedicated in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and President Gerald Ford.
1983 - The final phase of construction began with the setting of the first stone for the west towers.
1990 - The completion of the west towers marked the end of 83 years of construction.
23 August 2011 - Three of the four spires of the Gothic cathedral's central tower were damaged during an earthquake.