Trinity Cathedral
Mediterranean-style 1920s cathedral with mosaics, biblical stained glass, and a fifty-six-rank pipe organ.
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This guide to Trinity Cathedral in Miami opens in 1925, at the height of Florida's land boom, when the congregation decided to build something grand and hired architect Harold Hastings Mundy to design it after a church near Nimes, France. It follows the building through the boom's collapse just two years later, and the mortgage the congregation was left holding. Mundy blended Romanesque arches, Byzantine curves and Italianate warmth into one sanctuary built to seat eleven hundred people.
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