Stained glass windows?

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My Cathedral has awesome stained glass windows. Lots of saints, the Passion, and some of the parables. All funded in the 1800s, early 1900s
 
The parish I attend is not very pretty. It’s a post-VII Church and is VERY austere and horizontal. The scenes are partly Christian and partly related to the local community (again, very horizontal). The windows are approximately 30 feet tall, two feet wide and are not beautiful thin plate glass, they are really, really thick.

Here’s a wide view:
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We still have some Medieval stained glass remaining in our little village church but like many English churches much was destroyed during the Reformation and Commonwealth periods. 😦
 
Yes.

Our Stations of the Cross are our stained glasses windows on each side of the main church. 6 stations on each side.
 
Yes, they are representations of saints from various ages past.👍 They give me hope that if they could make it, maybe I can also.
 
My little church is a national historical site but not so much in the way of stained glass windows there’s one in the front of the church, and that is pretty much it. I will tell you that by South Carolina Standards it’s also kind of an old Catholic church it was built in the 1850s so that might have something to do with it
 
Rosary mysteries in ours, with various other themes in different places, like Saint Cecilia in the rose window where the organ loft is located. The sorrowful mystery stained glass windows were removed for renovation in the 1990s, and a large mural of the Crucifixion with groups of Saints witnessing the Crucifixion, was painted in their place.

Those removed windows disappeared. As is, no one knows what happened to them. It is a historical mystery that people discuss fairly often.

Another parish I attend once in a while, is a post Vatican II building. The stained glass windows are made of mosaic glass, set in thick mortar. (They don’t let in much light.)
 
RCinMT said:
The parish I attend is not very pretty. It’s a post-VII Church and is VERY austere and horizontal. The scenes are partly Christian and partly related to the local community (again, very horizontal). The windows are approximately 30 feet tall, two feet wide and are not beautiful thin plate glass, they are really, really thick.

Here’s a wide view:
richbrewers.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/st-anns-butte-mt.jpg?w=529&h=395
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No offense to you, but why in the world do so many modern churches look like an Indiana Jones set?

Regardless, both of my parishes have stained glass windows.
 
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Does your church have stained glass windows?
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Yes. They represent all of the California Missions. We ordered a very nice, olive wood statue of St. Junipero Serra from the Holy Land last Summer, to complete the look!
 
CyrilSebastian said:
Does your church have stained glass windows?
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Here in Pittsburgh, many churches both protestant and Catholic have stained glass.

Our Protestant friends, however, have images of Calvin and Knox in their windows, you won’t see them in a Catholic place of worship.
 
There’s a bit of a back-story to the windows in Sacred Heart Church, Cullman, Alabama (post #5). They were made in Germany in the mid-19-teens, but then put into storage, because they could not be shipped during WWI. They were finally shipped and installed about 1920. They were only a couple blocks off the track of the 2011 tornado that came thru town, but they didn’t have a chip. They were subsequently refurbished, and a protective outside layer was installed.
 
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