INTERIOR - St. Stephen RC Church /Elk Tree Gardens & Castle
193 Elk Street, Buffalo, New York

Center entrance roundel   ...   Photo taken in the narthex       ...    Opalescent stained glass sunburst cross   ...   Cf., monstrance below

Nave Nave Gothic ceiling    ...    Semi-dome in apse includes stained glass windows   ...    Blind arches  4-paneled ribbed vault   ...   Clerestory windows Nave geometric stained glass windows     ...   Top roundel depicts a mother pelican and chicks

Transept Stained Glass Windows Transept   ...   St. Stephen Before the Sanhedrin  ...    Four window details below: Detail #1 - Rose window above three vertical panels Trinity  St. Stephen Before the Sanhedrin   ...   The Sanhedrin was the supreme rabbinic court in Jerusalem   ...   Stephen is depicted as  young, beardless and tonsured, wearing a deacon's vestments    Opposite transept window   ...    St. Stephen being stoned to death   ...   The first Christian martyr, he was condemned for committing blasphemy against the Jewish Temple, and was stoned to death circa the year 36, a few years after the death of Christ. St. Clare holding a monstrance with a cross and sunburst design Halo indicates this is a saint   ...   Note patriarchal cross Halo indicates this is a saint   ...   Mitre and crosier indicate he is a bishop

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