Carmen City Cathedral

With a spire at each extreme of the crucifix shape roof that all places of Holiness have, and two smaller spires either side of the door side both day and night this building is gorgeous. During the day the sun reflects off the grey white of the exterior of the Church building and the original pre-thirteenth century sculpture only adds to its beauty. At night, the illumination installed to light up the Church from the ground gives it a starker white glow, and the evening services reflect the Church from inside via the original and well maintained stained glass windows. At all hours the glowing majesty of this Church is shown off. Built atop a man-made plateau its presence makes the faithful feel resolved in the fact they are not alone. The front door piece on one thick wall itself, a spire either side and a huge archway with a sculpted depiction of the crucifixion set into the top most point of the arch, the Churchs large but polished wooden doors swing open on creaking hinges. The floor is mostly made of a mosaic, pastel greens and blues with regal red polished to a squeaky shine, the sound that most footwear makes on it. From just inside the foyer of the church straight ahead is a smaller, more human size archway made of what looks like pure silver. Beyond the doorway the huge altar at the furthest extreme of the Church is magnificent to say the least. Gold and white in colour and set with a collection of holy white candles surrounding the Holy ground. The Church is decorated at all times to suit the season. During winter the sides of the main isle, which leads up to the alter from the silver archway, are set with holly leaves, ivy and bits of Christmas tree. Spring brings Easter and the decoration changes to early blossoming flowers, daffodils and miniature wooden crosses embedded in it all. Summer brings bright flowering bouquets of colour down the isle, which turns into the colours of autumn as the season ends. The Church organ, polished gold like the altar is situated in the far right of the Church having the entire right hand side of the cross to itself. On the extreme left are the confession booths, adding to the feel of a purely Catholic Church if it were not for the fact that they are bolted up tight. Walking down the centre isle, there are three steps up from the point of the centre of the cross shape. Down the steps the white with gold edges of the carpet leading towards the alter proper like a royal trail. Following the trail between the choirs boxes either side it eventually reaches the Holy ground where the alter stands, barred off with a waist high silver railing intricately twisted, only Priests and ordained men may stand here. The kneeling pads are golden to match the trim of the carpet. From the railing two doorways, one either side, seem to have stone staircases behind them leading down under the Church, into the Crypt maybe, or maybe a place for more private sermons.