In keeping with the austere decor favored by most Reformed churches, the original windows in LAPC’s sanctuary featured simple geometric patterns. It was not until the 1890s that our Tiffany art glass windows were installed.

The founding pastor, Dr Cuyler, had originally objected to these newer designs as being too ostentatious until Louis Comfort Tiffany himself persuaded him to serve as the model for the face of St Paul in the large window over the Lafayette Ave entrance.

LAPC’s second pastor, Dr Gregg, was well-read in Russian iconography and in Sanskrit: it has been hypothesized that the eight Tiffany windows lining the east and west walls were arranged in an order that reflects the seven chakhras of kundalini yoga, with the eighth window, based on Raphael’s “Transfiguration.”