If you get a chance, watch this program:

"Buffalo's Houses of Worship" - WNED documentary

Buffalo, New York possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The city can boast of secular buildings designed by three of America's greatest architects: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson.

However, the city's sacred architecture, representing the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist and Jewish faiths, is equally as impressive.

BUFFALO'S HOUSES OF WORSHIP is a grand exploration of 12 sacred Buffalo landmarks. From Gothic to Byzantine, Romanesque to Arts and Crafts, and Baroque to Modern, this program reveals the various architectural styles of Buffalo's houses of worship.

The documentary features the tallest openwork spire ever built completely of stone, the church that housed one of the first men and boys choirs in the United States, an ornately decorated church built using medieval methods and tools, and the historic Centennial organ, originally built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

My favorite appears towards the end of the program, Blessed Trinity.

St. Stan's was an early "mega-church," it seems, with a congregation of 20,000 in 1904!

Most of the churches featured are Roman Catholic. Does that surprise anyone?

And, seeing these majestic buildings, is it any wonder that I'm "high church"?