page_title: Cathedral Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
section_title: First Building 1864
hierarchical_section_title: Cathedral Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) / Buildings / Church / First Building 1864
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the interior of the nave, looking eastward, of The (Episcopal) Church of the Nativity, c. 1866.
context_page_description: The Cathedral Church of the Nativity is an Episcopal cathedral in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Bethlehem. In 1988 it was listed as a contributing property in the Fountain Hill Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: New York architect Edward Tuckerman Potter designed the first church building in and English Gothic Revival style. And so, on August 3, 1863 the cornerstone was laid, and construction began on the parish's first church building.  It was completed the following year with the first services celebrated on Christmas Day, and was consecrated on April 19, 1865 by the Rt. Rev. William B. Stevens, then Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania.
caption: Interior, c. 1866
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