Taken as we drove out of Hamilton, Ontario....
A truly distinctive Gothic architectural landmark, the Cathedral of Christ the King is the mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton . It was built 1931-1933, incorporating exquisite Italian marble and 82 stained-glass windows made in Munich, Germany and the organ is handmade in Bavaria from Mahogany & Oak. The Cathedral, alongside Highway 403, dominates the western entrance to the City of Hamilton . The building is 235 feet in length and 72 feet wide, and the steeple rises 165 feet from ground to top of the cross, and the carillon has 23 bells, weighing 64,000 pounds. The cathedral's limestone was quarried in Indiana and Georgetown, Ontario and t he Stations of the Cross were sculptured from a single block of Cararra marble; the kind used by Michelangelo for the Pieta.