Lausanne - Cathedrale Notre-Dame (Protestant since Reformation)

Lausanne Cathedral, pipe organ as design

Designs of great pipe organs in great cathedrals - too often lost in the focus forward.  Here is the organ at Lausanne's Cathedrale Notre-Dame, the Notre Dame of Lausanne.  The green color appears also at www. posted.post-gazette.com/.  Others show more whiteness. Exposures vary.

The pipe organ is American-made, by Boston's Fisk Company, and is new - installed in 2003.  Cost? Four point two million dollars, says the Post-Gazette site.

The Cathedral itself was built (of course) as a Roman Catholic building, was consecrated by Pope Gregory X in 1275; then converted when the Protestant Bernese took over this French area during the Reformation.  See this view of a mooning - it would date from the original construction. 

Whether the mooning here  it is reverent or not (was the mason a believer?), depends on the beholder.

Copy and past at your long address bar to get to the site and see the picture. We do not know how to reduce it to a thumbnail so we could use it.

Ask Mr. Routard, at ://www.routard.com/photos/suisse/71251-insolite_ou_diabolique.htm/. God did show his hind parts to Moses, so there is scriptural support - see Martin Luther's Stove, Foggy Texts.  We did not happen to see that item on our visit.

Pope Gregory X, who consecrated the Cathedral, admirably debunked the accusation du jour that Jews ate Christian babies, and declared that Christians not be believed against Jews in this matter unless the Jew was caught in the act, see Letter on Jews at ://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g10-jews.html

Lausanne Cathedral, South Portal (The Painted Portal)

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Here is the side portal of Lausanne's Cathedral, known as the Painted Portal (look closely).  It is being repaired, and is described in a google book, Gothic Architecture, at ://books.google.com/books?id=_6p4tE3aDVMC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=Cathedral+Lausanne+side+portal&source=bl&ots=P8XhM3pxXT&sig=qrp67teuATFkiRI17mBzsZOJWmw&hl=en&ei=Uau3SoO_NsrQ8QbixbGTDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=Cathedral%20Lausanne%20side%20portal&f=false/.

Doors. Keep you out, let you in. Look at both sides. Here, a Cathedral door from the outside, weatherworn, with its panels and decoration:

Lausanne Cathedral, Paneled Door From Outside

From the inside, just as interesting with locks and security: Blogger, what happened to the photo upload symbol?