NY Pics: St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Another must-see attraction for me was St. Patrick’s Cathedral (official site, Wikipedia). We walked by it on my last visit to NY and snapped a picture from the back, but I couldn’t tell how awesome it was from that perspective. I think Gothic architecture is cool (I want to go to Europe so bad!!), and have always been intrigued with (and scared of) the Catholic church.
We went to see St. Patrick’s Sunday evening but couldn’t get in, so we had to make a second trip to see the inside. We didn’t get nearly as many pictures of the inside as I would have liked, but you can appreciate how beautiful it is.
Reflection of St. Patrick’s off a neighboring building.
The main front door.
This is the side front door (on the left) which was where we went in on our second visit.
Pictures just don’t do justice to the real thing… It was vast! And those Gothic arches worked exactly as designed – they draw your eye up towards the heavens.
There were bas-reliefs (don’t be impressed, I had to look up that word) all around the inside of the church.
Isn’t Wikipedia awesome? I learn something new every day off that site… These reliefs are called Stations of the Cross.
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