Stained glass windows?

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Kielbasi said:
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.
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Here in southeast PA most churches I’ve seen have stained glass windows. My Evangelical Methodist church does, but an Evangelical Free church I’m also connected to does not—it’s a newer, more modern building, and stained glass work is expensive.

I’ve been in many churches in my area and the most beautiful windows I’ve ever seen are in an old rural Lutheran church near where I live. Behind the altar is a huge Tiffany-inspired depiction of Christ as the Good Shepherd. It’s heart-meltingly beautiful, and sometimes I go there just to gaze at the window in prayer.
 
AbideWithMe said:
Here in southeast PA most churches I’ve seen have stained glass windows. My Evangelical Methodist church does, but an Evangelical Free church I’m also connected to does not—it’s a newer, more modern building, and stained glass work is expensive.

I’ve been in many churches in my area and the most beautiful windows I’ve ever seen are in an old rural Lutheran church near where I live. Behind the altar is a huge Tiffany-inspired depiction of Christ as the Good Shepherd. It’s heart-meltingly beautiful, and sometimes I go there just to gaze at the window in prayer.
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That’s actually quite a beautiful way to look at it. I know not too far from me there is a Baptist church of all things, with beautiful stained glass. Oddly, it is EXTREMELY different than Baptist churches in even the same town, which, may have in their churches, an unadorned cross and not much else.
 
AbideWithMe said:
Here in southeast PA most churches I’ve seen have stained glass windows. My Evangelical Methodist church does, but an Evangelical Free church I’m also connected to does not—it’s a newer, more modern building, and stained glass work is expensive.
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In Pittsburgh, many of our Protestant churches had very wealthy industrialists as their benefactors, like the Mellon Family who made very generous gifts.

Even our Catholic cathedral, St. Paul’s, was built with Henry Clay Frick’s money, (he paid as he needed the previous cathedral for an office building), and has very elaborate stained glass courtesy of our industrial heritage.
 
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CyrilSebastian said:
Does your church have stained glass windows?
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The Shrine of the Bab which is overlooking the Bay of Haifa has stained glass windows…

*Opposite the main entrance, in the rear wall, is an immense stained – glass window comprising sixty-five square panels. It was commissioned in Palermo, Sicily and executed by a distinguished artist, formerly a professor at the local Beaux Arts College. The colours of the glass in this beautiful window are indigo blue, amber and ruby, set in a geometrical design. It is protected on the outside by a wrought iron grill *which follows the same outline as the leading that holds the glass panes in position.
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The historic Baptist Church I grew up in has many beautiful stain glass windows. The more modern 1960’s Catholic Church I was confirmed in has one huge one that take up a whole wall. The historic Catholic chapel we were married in was filled with stain glass.
 
They make sure they make efforts to protect these stained glass windows, I remember the pastor at Pittsburgh’s 1st Presbyterian concerned about the possibility of damage when they were imploding adjacent buildings for new development.
 
My own church doesn’t have stained glass windows, but a couple of years ago my wife and I had a holiday in Cairns, North Queensland (Australia).

I just happened to come across St. Monica’s Cathedral, as we were staying close by. The Cathedral itself is a little bland to look at from outside, but the stained glass windows inside are brilliant.

There are two sets of windows - the Creation Windows which adorn both side walls of the Cathedral, and the Peace Windows above the entrance, commemorating the Battle of the Coral Sea.

cairns.catholic.org.au/documents/creationwindows.html

cairns.catholic.org.au/documents/peacewindows.html

cairns.catholic.org.au/documents/cathedral.html
 
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After decades of “four white walls and a sermon”, now, Church isn’t Church without stained glass.
 
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