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Building Name: St. John Armenian Church

Studio Name: Loire (Gabriel) Studios

City: Southfield

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Date of Window: 1966

Subject/Title of Window: Saint John

Brief Description of Subject: Overall description of the dome windows provided by the architect:
 
"Your eyes are drawn upwards to the center disk at the top of the domed ceiling, seventy-two feet above the floor. From this central disk, sixteen arched windows, each glazed with faceted glass, portray saints important to the Armenian Church --- thirteen apostles [includes Saint Paul] and three Armenian saints."
 
Saint John is pictured holding a cup with snakes crawling out of it.
 
This comes from the legend that after John brought down the Temple of Diana with his prayers, Aristodemus, a priest of the temple, told John that he would become a Christian if John could drink a cup of poison and live. John blessed the cup, and the poison turned into snakes that crawled out of the cup. 

Height: 8'

Width: 2'

Type of Glass and Technique: Slab or Faceted Glass (Dalle de Verre)

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