A Cathedral Tried to Approach Heaven, but the Earth Held a Deep Secret Flows of spring water cut the planned height of St. John the Divine in half and prompted studies to illuminate the church’s watery past and future.
Cathedral of St. John Finally Solves a 100-Year-Old Problem The cathedral’s dome, a tour de force of tile, was supposed to be temporary. Instead, it’s lasted more than a century. Now, after a $17 million rehab, it could last a couple hundred more.