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NewsVisioneering Studios won the WorshipFacilities Expo 2011 Solomon Award foradaptive transformation of a historicconcrete hanger in Stapleton, CO, intoa new church building for the StapletonFellowship Church. The planned townof Stapleton did not set aside a siteor parcel for a church, so the nearbyStapleton Fellowship Church looked foran opportunity to relocate to the area andtransformed the hangar into a worshipspace. Visioneering Studios won the2011 Solomon Award for “Best ChurchArchitect” for the fourth year in a row.Photo: stapletonchurch.comVirgin Mary of Guadalupe, Patroness ofthe Americas, and were present for theunveiling of the newly restored tomb ofPope Innocent VIII, a project funded bythe Knights of Columbus.Photo: Gianni AlemannoA church built entirely of ice and snowopened in Bavaria to commemoratea similar snow church built thereone hundred years earlier. Villagersconstructed the first church becausethey did not have a permanent churchnearby. The new snow church contains49,000 cubic-feet of snow and will likelybe a tourist attraction until the beginningof spring.The Knights of Columbus now have astreet to call their own in Rome afterthe Largo Cavalieri di Colombo wasinaugurated on December 6th in thepresence of Supreme Knight Carl A.Anderson and Roman dignitaries ofboth Church and State. Located nearthe historic Baths of Caracalla, the streethonors with its new name the over ninetyyears of charitable involvement in theEternal City by the Knights of Columbus.While in Rome the Knights also attendeda special Mass in the Basilica of SaintPeter on the Solemnity of the BlessedSacred Architecture Issue 21 2012Photo: msnbc.msn.comThe newly consecrated Church of SaintPeter in Karachi is the largest Catholicchurch in Pakistan. The ApostolicNuncio to Pakistan, Monsignor EdgarPena Parra, concelebrated the inauguralMass with thirty-seven priests fromacross the country. The new 5,000-seatchurch totals 20,000 square feet and is78 feet tall. It was constructed in justeleven months and cost five millionRupees ($55,000). It includes a PerpetualAdoration Chapel, a devotional initiativethat will soon be implemented inchurches across Pakistan.The Basilica of Saint Paul’s Outside theWalls in Rome is currently hostingan exhibition of original documentsof the Second Vatican Council. Theexhibition began on January 25, theliturgical feast of the conversion of SaintPaul, and includes such documentsas the handwritten texts of Pope JohnXXIII’s address to announce the counciland his opening speech on October11, 1962. October 11, 2012, marks the50th anniversary of the opening of thecouncil.Photo: ucanews.comSt. Cecilia Congregation, Nashville, TN13 Nave windows, 16 Clerestory windows.Detail: “Angel gives Crown to Cecilia andValerian”Franz Mayer of MunichStained Glass,Architectural Art Glass and MosaicEstablished 1847Appointed 1882„Royal Bavarian Art Est.“Franz Mayer of MunichSeidlstrasse 2580335 Munich, GermanyPhone: 1-888-661 1694www.mayer-of-munich.com9