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Dutch cathedral unveils 9/11 terror attack in stained glass
A new stained glass window in a Dutch cathedral that contains an image of the World Trade Centre attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people was blessed on Sunday by a Dutch bishop.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:00 April 10, 2007
- The stained glass window shows the 9/11 attacks in Saint Jans Cathedral in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
- Image Credit: Reuters
Den Bosch, Netherlands: A new stained glass window in a Dutch cathedral that contains an image of the World Trade Centre attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people was blessed on Sunday by a Dutch bishop.
The window, built up of about 20 different panes with representations of heaven and hell, has the WTC pane at the bottom showing "hell on earth", its maker Marc Mulders said.
The pane shows an airplane about to crash in one of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
"It was an assignment by the church to make a stained glass window that was related to the spirit of this time," Mulders 48, said on his website, adding that he sees the WTC attacks as an image that speaks vividly to all people.
The window in the Sint Jan cathedral in Den Bosch, a city in the south of the Netherlands, has attracted the attention of the world's media press because of the Twin Tower image, pastor Geert Jan van Rossem said.
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