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Stained Glass Windows of Jersey City
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South Bergen Reformed Church, Photo Copyright 2002 John Gomez. Designed by Benjamin Sellers.
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Jersey City is a city of invisible wonders. The surreptitious art of stained glass is most evident in ecclesiastical structures graced by breathtaking biblical pictorials. The famed Tiffany & Company studios, which once operated glass and brass works throughout the metropolitan region, created some of the finest religious windows in Jersey City. Tiffany masters like Robert Dodge, Benjamin Sellers, and West Hoboken's own F. E. Freund were commissioned by wealthy parishes to design immense rose windows, spectacularly suspended over mosaic-lined transepts. Driven perhaps by their own powerful spirituality, these artists installed stunning rows of memorial lancet windows dedicated to founding fathers, donors' deceased spouses, or entire families that had met calamitous ends.


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