Secret passageways and ancient artifacts are the stars of new “behind-the-scenes” tours of the famous church.
A Spanish Crucifix is illuminated as visitors pray at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024. It’s a blustery spring afternoon in San Francisco, and we are gathered for one of the first-ever behind the scenes tours of that Gothic wonder,– and it holds the literal seat of its bishop, more on that in a bit – the cathedral is about two-thirds the size of Notre-Dame.
Tour group visitor Kelly Huibregtse, of San Francisco, stands on a balcony overlooking the indoor labyrinth during a behind the scenes tour of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024. A view of the bishop’s vestry seen during a behind the scenes tour of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024.
Docent Joe Garity gives a tour of the columbarium inside the Chapel of St. Francis during a behind the scenes tour of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024.
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