NATIONAL CATHEDRAL, Interior

The moment you enter the Cathedral, you’ll be struck both by the height of the nave and by the colored light streaming through the more than 200 stained glass windows. The largest of these, measuring more than 8 meters in diameter, is the rose window in the center, decorated by Rowan LeCompte on the theme of the Creation. Although the artist tried to use all colors, the lion’s share is made up of red, gray, green and brown, which represent, respectively, fire, air, water and earth, the four elements of nature according to Greek culture.

The best-known of the windows, however, is the Space Window, because it also contains a stone weighing 7.18 grams that came from the Moon, donated by the astronauts of Apollo 11.

The interior is also mainly in Neo-Gothic style, although a number of the side chapels are in Norman and Romanesque style.

The large pulpit, where Martin Luther King pronounced his last sermon, and from which all the US presidents - as well as the Dalai Lama - have spoken, was carved modeled on the shape of the pulpit in Canterbury Cathedral....