We went to the 9am service. Masks and social distancing were required. The music was great. The liturgy was great. The sermon was great. It wasn't the best architecture, which isn't the fault of those currently running it. I did think it was odd that the architecture ENHANCED the grey misery that is Seattle's weather, rather than contrast it. The homeless encampment was humbling. We all should be doing more, and St Mark's is. It can't be an easy outreach, but they are doing it. Bless you, St Mark's!

Walking down 10th Avenue we came across the sever looking Saint Mark’s Cathedral. This Building has a very checkered past, initially building started in 1928, but stopted due to the Great Depression, still incomplete it was dedicated on April 25, 1931. but the parish default on its mortgage, causing the cathedral to foreclosed in 1941. From 1943 to 1944, the United States Army used the cathedral as an anti-aircraft training facility; After WWII the parish raise funds to pay off its mortgage, and on Palm Sunday in 1947 burnt the mortgage document. The choir loft of St. Mark's has one of the largest pipe organs in Seattle, built in 1965 by the Dutch company of D. A. Flentrop, and restored in 1993-1994 and 2001. The white marble font was the work of local artist Julie Speidal in 2018. There are assorted banners and flags scattered about the Cathedral, but overhaul its pretty bleak inside, being dominated by the huge pillars supporting the wooden raftered ceiling. TIP: If you can, try and visit the vault (crypt) it has some interesting murals.