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More interesting history:
>Beneath the altar is the Cathedral’s foundation stone, which contains a piece of rock from a field near Bethlehem.
POTUS did mention "Bethlehem stone" numerous times during the rallies in the summer & fall. Was it a veiled reference to this?
> The idea for a national cathedral had first been conceived by the French planner Pierre l'Enfant, who had been commissioned by President George Washington in 1791 to lay out the design for what in 1800 became the city of Washington in the District of Columbia. Major l'Enfant set aside a site ("Lot D") in his plan for what he imagined as a non-denominational religious center:
>This church is intended for national purposes, such as public prayer, thanksgivings, funeral orations, etc., likewise a proper shelter for such monuments as were voted by the late Continental Congress for those heroes who fell in the cause of liberty and for such others as may hereafter be decreed by the voice of a grateful nation.
Nothing ever came of that idea and then the Brits took over and made it their own.
>the Cathedral, its schools and its grounds, as well as its bank accounts, prayer books, organ and altar cloths, are uniquely exempt from the language of the Dennis Canon, since they are all owned by a public charitable trust, whose charter dedicates it to a much broader purpose than just serving the Episcopal Church (USA). Nevertheless, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul serves simultaneously as the see both of the Bishop of Washington and of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
In other words, by law, the Washington Cathedral is supposed to be non-demoninational, but in practicality, the Anglicans hijacked it.