Christ the Light Cathedral

I really liked Christ the Light Cathedral; it was such a beautiful cathedral. Three Catholic theological beliefs illustrated in the architecture of the Christ the Light Cathedral are the shape of the Cathedral, the water fall going into the Mausoleum, and the alter in the Mausoleum. Christ the Light Cathedral’s shape symbolizes a womb. The Cathedral is very open and round; it symbolizes the peoples’ growth as a person and how worshipping and going to church develops people. The shape also could represent Noah’s arch upside down because the walls are all wood and in the shape of a boat. The ceiling is open and does not have wood over it because it represents “the heavens being able to gaze upon the earth and the earth to gaze up the heaven”. The ceiling also is pointed but rounded which symbolizes growth and prayers to go up to the heavens but also back down to the people in church. Also as you enter the Mausoleum there is a hallway that goes downward as if you were going underneath the earth.While walking into the Mausoleum there is a picture of Jesus and bath of water, an in front the Mausoleum there are waterfalls on the walls, these symbolize rebirth and purity. The water is a symbol of resurrecting the people who have past away and been buried in the Mausoleum. The water in the Cathedral is played throughout the whole Cathedral, because there is a bath of water right as soon as you walk into the Cathedral, which purifies and resurrect people who enter the Cathedral. In the Mausoleum there is an alter that is right below the alter upstairs, the ceiling is a little see-through; this represents that people whether they are deceased or alive are all one. Even though the people are deceased they share the same world we live in. The alter downstairs in the Mausoleum is also the original alter from the Cathedral.