Basilica and Money Making
Spent the morning doing laundry. Early afternoon we took a tour of The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (say that five times fast). Impressive building from the outside. Second floor (Upper Church) quite impressive. Lower (crypt level) floor interesting. Might be more meaningful to Catholics but I found the National Cathedral to be more impressive and inspiring. Sorry.
As I said – outside view is impressive.
Small portion of inside of main church.
Clue to size of church. This is a closer view of picture of Christ seen at far end of church in picture above this. The face of Christ is six feet across.
Cross town on Metro. Wait for our appointed time. Tour of Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Saw money being made. Lots of information and fun to see the process.
Not very impressive. Just a great big building (two actually – each a city block in size) with minimal ornamentation No pictures allowed inside so that’s all you get.
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