Stonemason helps repair national house of prayer

 
By Timothy M. Phelps | Published: December 10, 2012   

WASHINGTON — The earth shook under the nation’s church, snapping some of the 53 carillon bells’ cables and causing them to ring in forbidding disharmony.

photo - Joe Alonso, pictured outside Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 18, says that when he was first assessing the damage after the 2011 earthquake he was afraid to touch parts of the building for fear it might fall down.
Joe Alonso, pictured outside Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 18, says that when he was first assessing the damage after the 2011 earthquake he was afraid to touch parts of the building for fear it might fall down.

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Outside, cracks appeared on some of the winglike flying buttresses supporting the 100-foot walls and intricate stone arches that mark the Washington National Cathedral as one of the world’s...
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