Grace Cathedral
Gothic cathedral with a Keith Haring altarpiece, twin labyrinths, and replica Ghiberti bronze doors.
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This guide to Grace Cathedral in San Francisco centers on the bronze altarpiece artist Keith Haring finished in the final weeks before his death from AIDS in 1990, and why a chapel here became its home. It also traces the cathedral's own rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake, the replica Ghiberti doors cast from molds of Michelangelo's celebrated Florence gates, and the two labyrinths visitors still walk in silence. Take a slow lap of the north tower chapel before moving toward the entrance doors.
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