The Cathedral of Christ the Light stands at 2121 Harrison Street in Oakland. Craig W. Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed it, replacing Santiago Calatrava's earlier winning design. The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay is the owner. Groundbreaking was on May 21, 2005, and it was dedicated on September 25, 2008. The article describes abstract modern architecture drawing on Mies van der Rohe's steel and glass.
The worship space is a vesica piscis, with walls of overlapping wood and glass panels. Materials include concrete, Douglas fir, glass and steel. The omega window is 58 feet high, and capacity is 1,800.
The cost rose from 131 million dollars in 2003 to 190 million in 2007, then fell to 175 million.
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