While an improvement, I feel it falls short. The double altars! Why? The baldachin looks out of place in its squared off appearance and constricts the space.
While I don’t like the art above the altar, but it is art and I am sure it was very expensive. I hope it was not trashed.
But ugh! St. Simon and Jude Phoenix AZ .....before and after.
Before:
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It’s a toss up
It looks like the sculpture of the resurrected Christ is now on the outside of the cathedral. It's really not a bad example of modern religious art (though I think less appropriate than the crucifix for the sanctuary).
It also looks like there are not really two altars. The second is more a base for the tabernacle and couldn't really be used for the celebration of Mass.
It looks like an improvement however, I'm struggling to find better photos. Perhaps that's a shortcoming if I can't readily tell from the provided photo. There appears to be an altar of repose behind the main altar which is now under a baldachin. Better than it was, and as suggested above, perhaps the pre-renovation decorations were reintegrated elsewhere.
Again, an unsuccessful attempt to blend architectural and decorative styles.
The "frame" above the altar is rather unsubstantial and looks like a temporary structure for a chuppah.
The tabernacle base does not appear to be more than that.
The crucifix is a three dimensional rendering of the very famous image painted by Cimabue in ca 1265. The orig is in the Franciscan church Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.
I knew the minute I looked at the photos that this was a parish in a desert community. Something about those places just seem to embrace a sort of "space age" weirdness that takes Mid-Century Modernism to new extremes.
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