Cathedral of Saint John the Divine

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its bishop. It is located in New York's Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue 112th Street. The cathedral is dedicated to St. John, with Saint John the Divine says the author of the Book of Revelation.

History

Bishop Horatio Potter spoke in 1872 to the theme of the construction of a cathedral, to which this was decided unanimously to 1873, the founding document for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was issued. 1888 5.25 hectare site of the cathedral was chosen on which the foundation stone was laid on December 27, 1892 on the day of St. John. The design of George Lewis Heins and LaFarge John foresaw a Byzantine- Romanesque style, but this was changed by Ralph Cram 1911 in the Gothic Revival style, after the great dome was completed in 1909 by Rafael Guastavino. With 11,240 m² of floor space, a volume of 476 350 cubic meters and a length of 183.2 m is the largest Anglican church after St. Peter, the Basilica Notre- Dame de la Paix and the Cathedral of Seville is the fourth largest Christian church in the world.

John the Divine should be the greatest, but is not completed until two-thirds. The construction works have been temporarily suspended for lack of funds in 1999. Also from 1941 to 1979 the work had rested. In December 2001, a fire destroyed the north transept, in 2003 began the restoration.

Equipment

The organ dates back to an instrument that was built in 1906-10 by the organ builder Ernest M. Skinner Company as opus 150. In 1954, the instrument of the Aeolian - Skinner Company under the leadership of George Donald Harrison as opus 150A was sonically altered in the sense of the " American Classic" and greatly expanded. After the instrument that had suffered from smoke and soot in a fire in Vierungsbereich in 2001 considerable damage, long time remained silent, it was last in 2008 by the organ builder Quimby Pipe Organs Inc., Warrensburg (Missouri ), extensively revised and restored. Since then, the organ has 151 ranks of pipes (101 independent registers, and some transmissions and statements) and 8,514 pipes. It is one of the most famous organs in the world.