All Saints Cathedral, Chicago
- Architect
- Worthmann & Steinbach
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
The former Cathedral of All Saints was built for the Polish National Catholic Church by Worthmann & Steinbach after a congregation split off in 1895 from St. Hedwig's, just three blocks north, in a dispute over the dominance of the Resurrectionist Order. Known as the White Cathedral, it stands in Bucktown as one of the monumental Polish Cathedral-style churches visible from the Kennedy Expressway, alongside St. Wenceslaus, St. Mary of the Angels, and Holy Trinity.
the building
The White Cathedral. The building earned its nickname from its pale exterior, marking it out among the cluster of Polish churches that rise along the Kennedy Expressway corridor.
the style
Built in the Gothic Revival idiom, the cathedral follows the Polish Cathedral style's emphasis on opulence and grand scale, the same formula used across Chicago's immigrant Polish parishes of the period.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
High maintenance costs forced a sale of the building in December 1993; it now houses Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part of the Presbyterian Church in America. The Polish National Catholic Church relocated its Western Diocese cathedral to an expanded chapel at All Saints Polish National Catholic Cemetery on Higgins Avenue.
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