National Cathedral needs ‘tens of millions’ in quake repairs

From The Washington Post-

The Washington National Cathedral will need “tens of millions of dollars” over “numerous years” to repair extensive damage to the nation’s second-largest church following an Aug. 23 earthquake, church officials said Tuesday (Oct. 4).

The landmark church requires $25 million “just to get to June 2012, for the first phase of work and to resume worship and programming. We know it will ultimately be much more,” says Richard Weinberg, a spokesman for the cathedral.

The Episcopal cathedral, which advertises itself as “a spiritual home for all,” has been the setting for presidential funerals and other major national events. An estimated 35,000 worshippers and visitors arrive there every month.

Its stone-upon-stone, hand-crafted Gothic architecture took 83 years, from 1907 to 1990, to complete.

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