The 15, 000-square-foot mansion, with views on the Intracoastal, has kept many of the architectural features that the flamboyant diva ordered, including hand-painted walls, a domed stained glass skylight, five fireplaces, intricate crown moldings, a velvet-covered old-style theatre with a performance stage, etc .
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At the top, God stands isolated in a stained-glass window and personifies the ancient Jewish belief that He was alone.
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Framed by a stained-glass window at the Shrine Church of St.
Those visiting the church will also see a stained-glass window, known as the choir window, which was donated by the Goldwater family in memory of Barry Goldwater's parents.
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The religious symbolism in some of his photo-calls the 2001 election campaign launched in front of a stained-glass window, last week's image of khaki-clad troops in a khaki desert, with Mr Blair in bright white shirt, arms uplifted is all too plain.
There's a 20-car garage, a 30-foot stained glass dome, a large main kitchen plus about ten smaller kitchens.
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The home has 12 bedrooms, eight-and-a-half baths, 16th-century stained glass and a Celtic fireplace.
The indoor swimming pools are the most beautiful in Budapest, with the main pool having a glass dome, Art Nouveau mosaics, stained-glass windows and many statues.
The Art Nouveau structure, built in 1903, was transformed into a design hotel in 2012, showcasing granite walls lined with contemporary art, and stained glass windows that evoke a Harry Potter-like vibe.
The former occupant, a financial services company, had built a palatial executive suite with stained glass, antiques and expensive art.
Sarah Brown, director of the York Glaziers Trust, which carried out the restoration of the five panels displayed in the orb, said the minster was "a great treasure house of stained glass".
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Loss adjustors have already visited the church to survey the shattered stained glass window depicting a nativity scene, a broken 17th Century wooden pulpit, a dented lectern and, most importantly, a smashed Victorian frieze behind the altar.
It has stone sculptures on the walls, stained-glass windows and a carved lectern.
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An old woman was cleaning cobwebs and birds' nests out of the high-up stained-glass nooks with a 5-meter-long branch of bamboo.
Just a few meters away, behind stained-glass doors, metal detectors, security guards and video cameras, scores of ethnic-Chinese Thais are hunched over green felt tables playing blackjack, baccarat and roulette.
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Still, the legend endures, as do calls for women to break through the stained-glass ceiling and have a greater say in the church.
What was regarded as cheap and tacky, like the stained glass front door, had a renaissance after modernist architecture and its tower blocks were deemed a failure.
The list goes on from a slew of golden reliquaries to the panels of stained glass from that Paris jewel, Sainte Chapelle.
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The museum's kids Web site has activities to keep kids entertained while visiting, including guides that focus on specific areas of art like a scavenger hunt, from animals to doors to stained glass.
It was a beautiful, unassuming church meticulously made out of stone and stained glass.
Canterbury Cathedral World Heritage Site is giving visitors a rare opportunity to see some of its 800 year old stained glass up close.
Measuring a zaftig 65, 000 square feet, it's a multilevel facility with 26 treatment rooms, locally made stained-glass windows, intricately carved mesquite desks, tables and benches, and gentle Paul Ferrante lighting.
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The mosque is suffused by light entering from clerestory windows cut into the steps of the pyramid, and the traditional mihrab an ornamented niche indicating Mecca's orientation has sprouted into a full-length, transparent kiosk, animated by modernist stained glass.
This classic establishment lines the wall of the hotel facing Madison Avenue, which can be seen through stained glass windows behind the bar, and is a perfect place to sip an aperitif and watch hotel guests go about their business.
And they have helped to restore a little church that was crumbling away - now it again has stained-glass windows, funded by the Cuban-American diaspora.
Was this not what the artists of stained glass in the Gothic cathedrals strove to achieve, only in a different way?
Amid its 300 acres, the park has three churches, replicas of all of Michelangelo's works and a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" in stained glass.
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To our disbelief a beautiful Ethiopian Orthodox church was looted - the inner sanctuary descrated, stained-glass windows broken, holy paintings ripped up, crosses - even those in the graveyards - looted.
As a child, I'd imagine what it must have felt like, a few hundred years earlier, coming to Cologne to see this dome and these stained-glass windows even as everyone for miles around lived in earthen huts.
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