DC church gets full Lego treatment as parishioner pairs faith, hobby
In Matthew Taylor’s imagination, St. John’s Episcopal Church is about 45 inches long and 24 inches high. His version of the historic church in Washington, DC, where he is a member, is made from as many as 5,000 Lego bricks, many of them purchased online from aftermarket sellers around the country and the world. Its plastic parishioners are each the size of a thumb.
“This is the biggest Lego model I’ve ever built,” said Taylor, 31. With the model mostly complete, he showed it off this summer at the annual BrickFair expo in Chantilly, Virginia, alongside his Lego model of Christ Church in nearby Alexandria, where he now lives. The Lego St. John’s caught the eye of CNN’s Jake Tapper, who posted a photo of it to Twitter during a family visit to BrickFair.
The real-life, full-size version of the church was built in 1816. St. John’s is now best known as “the church of the presidents” because of the occasional visits made by the current occupant of the White House, which is across the street.
