Cambridge Day 1

This morning I attended Great St. Andrews Church 10:00 a.m. worship. I was expecting a tiny group of elderly people in a giant church, but instead found a full and vibrant church filled with children and students. They service was a pretty unsophisticated contemporary service with overhead projectors, but it definitely felt alive. Here is a photo of the inside from the balcony where we sat.


At 1:30 p.m. we headed out for the town of Ely about a 40 minute ride to the northwest of Cambridge to visit Ely Cathedral, an enormous Cathedral that was initially a chapel built in honor of St. Etheledreda in 673. Here is a picture of the front and side, and another of the front. It is a mammoth building.


The stained glass windows were magnificent and I have included the windows at one end of the nave and another the second at the end of one of the transepts.


At 4:00 p.m. we worshiped at the Evensong service which lasted about 1 1/2 hours. Here is a picture of the inside of the nave.