"These are sort of our secular cathedrals."

Or is it the location itself, a sanctuary that New Yorkers regard as their secular cathedral?

It was as if Canadians, who can be so unsure of their national identity, could find it in this secular cathedral.

Truly, modern cities were the world's supreme mysteries, and skyscrapers their secular cathedrals.

They were omitted from several other secular cathedrals but were built here and at Chichester.

Theories explaining their construction at these secular cathedrals range from processional to aesthetic; none, however, are proven.

It is nothing less than their secular cathedral.

Thus the square is dominated by a secular cathedral, a temple of commerce, a cultural style that was also to mark London and New York.

The park is New York's secular cathedral.

And the great secular cathedral of New York City also opened itself to change.