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About our beautiful windows:

          

                  The East Window

Most of Messiah's stained glass windows were installed by the Willet Company of Philadelphia.  The most notable exception is the East window (above the altar), depicting Jesus Christ, which is a Tiffany window.  It had been installed in the downtown church in 1912 and moved with the congregation to Hamilton.  

The ten side windows tell the Gospel story, beginning on the front left (as you face the altar) and continuing around to the front right.  The ten windows depict, in order: the Nativity, the Boyhood of Jesus, the Baptism of Jesus, Calling the Apostles, Jesus the Sustainer, Jesus the Teacher, Jesus the Messiah, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension.

The large West window (above the main doors to Harford Road) depicts "The Works of Mercy from the Parable of the Last Judgment."  The windows above the three sets of exterior doors, called "Tympanums", have the themes of peace and joy.  The smaller clerestory windows (high above the central aisle) show symbols of the Church and the Church Year.  The two windows in the vestibule depict John the Baptist on the north side and the Prophet Amos on the south side.