National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Saturday, February 25, 2006
The National Shrine is a must-see for Roman Catholics visiting Washington, DC. In addition to the enormous upper church and lower crypt church, there are dozens of small chapels, each dedicated to various nations. Architecture is beautiful, especially the tiled mosaics and stained glass of the upper church. Also not to be missed are the marble saint sculptures outside the crypt church on the lower level and the chapel of Ireland in the rear of the upper level.