3D print the Cathedral of St John the Divine
A free, printable model of New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine with its west front and buttresses, surrounded by buildings and green space, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Cathedral of St John the Divine
Serving as the Episcopal Diocese of New York's cathedral, St. John the Divine stands at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, between West 110th Street, also called Cathedral Parkway, and West 113th Street. Nicknamed St. John the Unfinished, it has only two-thirds of its proposed building in place, held back by major changes of style, interruptions to the work, and unstable ground on the site.
Construction began in 1892 on the original design, which combined Romanesque Revival and Byzantine Revival elements. After the crossing opened in 1909, the plan switched to a Gothic Revival design, and the nave was not finished until 1941 because of funding shortfalls. A major fire in 2001 damaged part of the building, which was renovated and then rededicated in 2008. Left incomplete are the towers above the west facade, the southern transept and a steeple proposed for the crossing.
Despite being incomplete, it ranks as North America's largest church, fourth by area among churches of all Christian denominations, and, by some definitions, the largest Protestant cathedral in the world. Its floor area is 121,000 square feet (11,200 square meters), its length is 601 feet (183 m), and the nave roof reaches 177 feet (54 m). The interior has hosted hundreds of events and art exhibitions. The cathedral close also holds the Leake & Watts Orphan Asylum's building, along with the bishop's house, the deanery, the choir school and St. Faith's House, and was designated a city landmark in 2017.
How it prints
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.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 20 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 25 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 32 mm | 1:2,344 |
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West
- Slim flying buttresses
- Thin arched buttresses run along both sides of the nave. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Open-frame tower tops
- The towers end in open square frames, and the west front carries a round window and many small arches. A larger print keeps these details easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The Cathedral of St John the Divine 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 Cathedral of St John the Divine 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 this model
The Cathedral of St John the Divine is one of more than 2,300 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.
Common questions
Is there a Cathedral of St John the Divine STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Cathedral of St John the Divine grows with the print: about 20 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
