The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the Episcopalian answer to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. St. John the Divine’s is the world’s largest cathedral and observation alone of its beautiful external artwork is a rewarding experience. The west façade of St. John the Divine’s is covered with sculptures each portraying a different event. The west façade resembles that of Amiens Cathedral located in Amiens, France. Each cathedral has three …showed first 75 words of 540 total…

…showed last 75 words of 540 total…and clerestory. The Amiens Cathedral is also built using numbers to tell stories. Nothing on the inside of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine can be seen from the outside, but light pours into the cathedral through the stain glass windows which helps make it a place in between heaven and earth. The cathedral is showing people how to get to heaven and is a beautiful and perfect stand in for heaven on earth.