Explore moments from across the life of the Metropolitan Cathedral

The Metropolitan Cathedral is a place of worship, music, and community. This gallery captures some of the many occasions and people that shape its life.

Tall segmented stained-glass windows in reds, purples and oranges with black leaded geometric patterns filling a dark interior, and a bright round hanging light casting a warm glow to the right. Bronze statue with intricate metalwork stands left in dim gallery light while two elderly women on the right, wearing audio-guide headphones and red lanyards, converse as they view the artwork. Three altar servers in white robes and red cords process through a church, one holding a censer, another a lit candle and another a small chalice, with large candles in the foreground and stained-glass windows behind them. Two altar servers in white surplices and black cassocks walk down a church aisle, one swinging a thurible that emits incense, with a row of blurred candles in the foreground and tall stained-glass windows behind them. Vibrant mosaic in a church depicting robed figures with raised hands and tongues of flame above their heads, framed by dim stone walls and seen over a blurred wooden panel engraved with the word UNITY. Two altar servers in white surplices process down a church nave — one swinging a smoking thurible and the other holding an incense boat — followed by servers with tall candlesticks amid rows of wooden pews, a stone altar and a stained-glass panel in the background. Five altar servers in white surplices and black cassocks processing down a curved church corridor, two at the front holding a swinging thurible and a small chalice while others carry tall candles and a processional cross, all with solemn expressions. Two men stand before a museum-style timeline of large informational panels about a cathedral; a bald man in a dark suit points to a panel titled An elderly woman in a red choir robe and glasses smiles and talks with a man in a dark winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood inside a church nave with wooden pews and blue stained-glass windows behind them. Gold-toned wooden crucifix of Christ with outstretched arms lit by a single spotlight against a textured brick wall, the cross and figure casting a stark shadow into surrounding darkness. Dimly lit vaulted brick exhibition hall with stone columns and arched ceilings, tiled floor and several illuminated angled information panels on wooden stands, one panel prominently showing a robed religious figure raising a hand. Interior of a large circular church showing a central white altar on a raised round marble platform beneath a dramatic radial metal chandelier, blue vertical stained-glass windows and organ pipes behind, with rows of wooden pews in the foreground. Modern circular cathedral interior with a high ribbed concrete dome and glazed central oculus, an orchestra arranged on a round stage at the centre and a large audience seated in concentric tiers around it. A person with short reddish hair and a red coat stands alone facing the altar inside a large church, framed by tall blue stained-glass columns, a crucifix above the sanctuary and a patterned marble floor. A wrinkled hand holding a lit white tealight candle above a tray of clear glass votive holders filled with blue wax. Large circular ceiling framework of radial metal beams and crisscrossing supports studded with downward spotlights and pendant lamps above a dim interior lit by blue-tinted stained-glass windows.

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