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St Mary's Cathedral Description

St Mary's Cathedral, the third to bear this name, is by far the most impressive of San Francisco's churches, and well worth seeing.

Consecrated in 1971, it replaced the second St Mary's Cathedral, on Van Ness Avenue, which burned down in 1962. Erected on a site formerly occupied by a supermarket, the cathedral can seat a congregation of 2,500.

The building was designed by local architects Angus McSweeney, Paul A. Ryan and John M. Lee in association with Pietro Belluschi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (Mass.) and Pier Luigi Nervi of Rome. It has a pillar-less nave and a 195ft/60m-high dome at the apex of which four narrow stained glass windows converge like great translucent pathways to form a

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Hobbies & Activities category: Christian sites; Stained glass of note

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St Mary's Cathedral
1111 Gough Street
San Francisco, CA 94109-6686
United States

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Phone 1 (415) 567-2020

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