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What's your take on Christ the Light ...


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This forum topic is based on a poll conducted earlier. Voting has been closed.
 
 
What's your take on Christ the Light Cathedral?

  • It's absolutely gorgeous
  • It's an unholy abomination
  • It'll be part of the landscape in no time
  • It needs more gargoyles

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Here's how Times staff writer Rebecca Rosen Lum's "New life sprouts from cathedral" starts:

Light is the pivotal feature of the 110-foot high Cathedral of Christ the Light sanctuary. As the lakefront cathedral complex has taken shape, it also has generated plenty of heat.

The cathedral in Oakland has been compared to a nuclear reactor, a basket wrapped in glass, an architectural symphony and, in the words of Bishop Allen Vigneron, "a great, soaring vault." [...]

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Picture of Christ the Light construction earlier this year by Flickr user Brooke Anderson under Creative Commons license.

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