Rosary Cathedral
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Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Toledo, Ohio. The cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo. This cathedral is unique architecturally in that it was designed in the Spanish Plateresque style. It was designed with Toledo's Sister City, Toledo, Spain in mind. The church was, in every sense, build in the spirit of the great European cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
[edit] History
The second bishop of the diocese of Toledo, Ohio, Samuel Cardinal Stritch(1921-1930), made the final selection of plans approving the architectural drawings of William Perry of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ground breaking for the cathedral occurred in 1925 and the cornerstone was placed in 1926. Even though Great Depression had occurred starting in the fall of 1928, nevertheless, the building was structurally completed in 1931 at a cost of $3.25 million. It was not until October 1940, at the end of the depression, that Bishop Karl Joseph Alter (1931-1950), the third bishop of the diocese dedicated the church as "THE QUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY" Cathedral.
[edit] Recent Restoration
The interior of the church was restored in 2000 and many decades of accumulated soot from coal- fired and oil-fired boilers were removed bringing back the many beautiful mosaics in the original brilliance and lustre.
