Neo-Gothic Nobility

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More than six years after a five-alarm fire scarred much of its interior, the nave of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine has just reopened on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street, following a two-year, $16.5 million cleaning and renovation. The splendid restoration, unveiled even as work continues in other damaged areas of the church, raises an issue that, at this late date, is all too easy to ignore: the issue of ecclesiastical architecture.


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