"Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (Providence, Rhode Island)"

The Neo-Romanesque church was designed in 1873 by Patrick Keely. The cornerstone of the current cathedral was laid in 1878. On June 30, 1889, more than a decade after construction began, the completed cathedral was finally consecrated. The cathedral underwent a major renovation beginning in 1968.

The cathedral's interior is decorated in a Gothic revival style and bears close resemblance to Holy Name Cathedral, the seat of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The brownstone exterior is remarkably similar to the original Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, CT, finished in 1889 (which burned in 1956). Famed 19th century church architect. Patrick Keely designed all three buildings [along with hundreds of others throughout the United States and Canada).

The tabernacle was cast in bronze by X. Corberro and Sons of Barcelona, Spain. The small finial ornament atop the tabernacle took some 58 hours to complete. The main altar is built of Verde Issoire, a green marble quarried in the French Alps. Green marble serves as decorative wainscoting along the walls and comprises the interior columns along the nave. The nave and transepts are capped by a ceiling of gothic vaulting and ribs of carved wood with the areas between the ribs painted in various scenes. Stained glass windows feature scenes from both the New and Old Testaments and are fashioned from antique Munich Glass as are the west rose window, east rose window and great circular window. The windows were created in the studios of the Tyrolese Art Glass Company of Innsbruck, Austria. A large granite sarcophagus rests in the west transept, containing the remains of Bishop Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence

The building is constructed of Connecticut Brownstone and is one of the more prominent pieces of architecture in the city of Providence. There are two 156 ft towers which contain four church bells representative of the Four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They were cast in a Dutch foundry and were dedicated in 1968.

On September 17, 2001, a memorial Mass was celebrated for Rhode Island native David Angell and his wife Lynn Edwards Angell who were passengers on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 by Arab terrorists for al-Qaeda.  David Angell was a television writer and producer best known for his work on Cheers, Wings and Frasier. The Mass was celebrated by his older brother, the Most Rev. Kenneth Angell, Bishop of Burlington, VT.