Today we visit the Washington National Cathedral. We recommend you take metro to Farragut West and then pick up the Pennsylvania Avenue bus line, Route 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, to get to the Cathedral. (2:34)

We start out in the Narthex, and read one of the inscriptions there.(1:01)

We enter the church and talk about the history of the cathedral, and it's construction and architecture. We talk about the Space Window. (5:14)

We visit the side of the cathedral, for a better look at the Space Window, the bosses in the ceiling near it, and the Woodrow Wilson Bay. (12:18)

We play the song Cantate Domino by Pitoni, performed by the Sanctuary Choir of LIttle River United Church of Christ, which is the choir we sing in. (15:44)

We visit the Mellon Chapel, which contains a Coventry Cross of Nails, and talk a little about Coventry Cathedral and the Coventry Cross. (16:45)

We visit the central part of the church, the crossing, then visit the Veteran's Memorial and Children's Chapels. (18:37)

We visit the St. John's chapel, the choir, the Great Altar, and the St. Mary's chapel, in the nave of the Cathedral (28:17)

We stop at the Holy Spirit Chapel, just before going down into the Crypt Church. (36:07)

We play the song Prelude from Prelude and Fugue in D Major by J. S. Bach, and performed by Craig Stapert, Choir director and Organist of Little River United Church of Christ. Both this and the earlier piece are from the Album Forever Blessed.(38:18)

In the basement, we visit the Bethlehem Chapel and the tomb of Bishop Satterlee. (43:53)

We head on to visit the Joseph of Arimithea chapel, located under the crossing in the upper church. (47:49)

Appropriate for a podcast we are putting up on Easter weekend, we end in the Resurrection chapel. (52:16)

We take one quick last visit to the observation deck. Next week we'll bring you a tour of the outside of the Cathedral! (53:03)

We hope to continue to spotlight DC area music on our podcast. If you are a local musician and you would like to hear your music on Washington TravelCast, you can leave us a message here on our web page, or email us at washingtontravelcast@yahoo.com.

Our Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans.

Incidental music during the walk is from find me by H.

Photo Album for the first part of our tour of the National Cathedral.