Christ Church Anglican Cathedral

The Christ Church Cathedral features walls built of rough-hewn native limestone that have bleached to a stark, blinding white under the Caribbean sun. This Anglican seat of the Bahamas stands on a site used for worship since the late seventeenth century. In eighteen forty-one, a frantic local congregation salvaged the heavy mahogany rafters from their previous hurricane-damaged building to roof this stone structure. Those timbers still hold up the ceiling today, anchored by iron bolts driven deep into the masonry.