3D print the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
A free, printable 3D model of Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, with the surrounding streets and buildings, built from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 28 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
28 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A long, wide building
The shrine is long and wide in this model, so its outline and front carry the shape rather than any single detail. Print it larger, or use 0.12–0.16 mm layers, for crisp edges.
- One piece with the ground
The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
A Catholic national shrine in Washington, D.C., this basilica is North America's biggest Catholic church building, and no habitable building in the city is taller. Work started in 1920 in a mix of Neo-Byzantine and Romanesque Revival styles. Its dedication is to the Immaculate Conception, principal patroness of the United States, and it is the patronal church for the Catholic Church in the country. In 1990 Pope John Paul II gave it minor basilica status.
Inside are 82 Marian chapels, flanking the Great Upper Church and also the Crypt Church, built to show where Catholic Americans and the religious orders that paid for them came from. The Greek-styled interior is crowned with mosaic-covered domes, larger than those of St. Mark's in Venice, which they resemble. The Trinity Dome has 47,000 gloss Ludowici shingle tiles forming biblical patterns. The exterior is 140 m (459 ft) long, 73 m (240 ft) wide and 72 m (237 ft) up to the cross at the top of its dome, with room for 10,000 worshipers.
Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan, who led the Catholic University of America as its fourth rector, proposed the shrine, and on August 15, 1913, he took the idea to Pope Pius X. The Boston firm Maginnis & Walsh supplied the drawings, the site was blessed in 1920, and the first public Mass was said in the unfinished Crypt Church on April 20, 1924. The Depression, then World War II, stopped work above the crypt; building resumed on November 15, 1954, and the Great Upper Church was dedicated on November 20, 1959. In 2015 Pope Francis canonized Junípero Serra there.
About this model
The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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