Editing Cathedral of Learning (section)

==Nationality Rooms==
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[[Image:AustrianRoom.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Nationality Rooms#Austrian|Austrian Classroom]], one of 31 [[Nationality Rooms]] in the Cathedral of Learning]]
[[Image:Chinese nationality room in the Cathedral of Learning 02.jpg|right|thumb|[[Nationality Rooms#Chinese|The Chinese Classroom]]]]
The cathedral is home to 31 Nationality Rooms located on the first and third floors: 29 working classrooms and two rooms used mostly for display or occasional special events. Each nationality room is designed to celebrate a different culture that had an influence on Pittsburgh's growth, depicting an era prior to (or in the singular case of the French Classroom, just after) 1787, the year of the university's founding and of the signing of the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]].

The Nationality Room programs began in 1926 when Bowman decided that he wanted to involve the community as much as he could in constructing the cathedral, so he proposed that each nationality that had a significant number of people in Pittsburgh would be allowed to design their nationality's room for the cathedral. Each group had to form a Room Committee responsible for all fundraising, designing, and acquisition. The university provided only the room and, upon completion, upkeep for perpetuity. All other materials, labor, and design were provided by the individual committees. These were sometimes aided by foreign governments and the rooms contain multiple authentic artifacts and materials from the country represented.<ref>[http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/pages/about_nr.html The Nationality Rooms: about nationality rooms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028112138/http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/pages/about_nr.html |date=October 28, 2012 }}. Pitt.edu. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.</ref> A typical room on the 1st floor (those built between 1938 and 1957) took between three and ten years to complete and cost the equivalent of [[US$]]300,000 in 2006 dollars. More recent rooms have cost in the range of $750,000 and up.<ref name="Alberts1986">{{cite book|last=Alberts|first=Robert C.|title=Pitt: the story of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SzS7AAAAIAAJ|access-date=August 2, 2010|year=1986|publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]]|isbn=978-0-8229-1150-0|page= 135}}</ref>

===Classrooms===
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* [[African Heritage Classroom|African Heritage]]
* [[Armenian Classroom|Armenian]]
* [[Austrian Nationality Room|Austrian]]
* [[Chinese Classroom|Chinese]]
* [[Czechoslovak Classroom|Czechoslovak]]
* [[Nationality Rooms#Early American|Early American]] (Display)
* [[English Classroom|English]]
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* [[French Classroom|French]]
* [[German Classroom|German]]
* [[Greek Classroom|Greek]]
* [[Hungarian Classroom|Hungarian]]
* [[Indian Classroom|Indian]]
* [[Irish Classroom|Irish]]
* [[Israel Heritage Classroom|Israel Heritage]]
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* [[Italian Classroom|Italian]]
* [[Japanese Nationality Room|Japanese]]
* [[Lithuanian Classroom|Lithuanian]]
* [[Korean Classroom|Korean]]
* [[Norwegian Classroom|Norwegian]]
* [[Philippine Classroom|Philippine]]
* [[Polish Classroom|Polish]]
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* [[Romanian Classroom|Romanian]]
* [[Russian Classroom|Russian]]
* [[Scottish Classroom|Scottish]]
* [[Swedish Classroom|Swedish]]
* [[Swiss Classroom|Swiss]]
* [[Syria-Lebanon Room|Syrian-Lebanon]] (Display)
* [[Turkish Nationality Room|Turkish]]
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* [[Ukrainian Classroom|Ukrainian]]
* [[Welsh Classroom|Welsh]]
* [[Yugoslav Classroom|Yugoslav]]
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===Proposed rooms===
There are six nationality rooms in various stages of planning to add to the current 31.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/pages/rooms_in_planning.html |title=The Nationality Rooms - rooms in planning |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=August 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528115101/http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/pages/rooms_in_planning.html |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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* Danish<ref name="Fedele">{{cite news|url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=65|title=The Cathedral of Learning: A History|last=Fedele|first=John|date=March 12, 2007|work=Pitt Chronicle|publisher=University News and Magazines, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>
* Finnish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghfinns.org/FinnishCommittee.html|title=Finnish Nationality Room Information|publisher=The Finlandia Foundation, Pittsburgh Chapter and The Finnish Committee, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>
* Iranian<ref>{{cite web| url=http://iranianroom.org/| title=Iranian Nationality Room| date=November 18, 2010| access-date=December 16, 2010| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226032725/http://iranianroom.org/| archive-date=December 26, 2010| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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* Latin American & Caribbean<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritageroom.org/|title=The Latin American & Caribbean Heritage Room ... Bienvenidos Amigos! Welcome Friends!|date=January 8, 2010|publisher=The Latin American & Caribbean Heritage Room committee, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010|archive-date=May 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511202827/http://www.heritageroom.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Moroccan<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Spring%20%202014%20%28Newsletter%29_0.pdf|title=Message From the Director|first=E. Maxine|last=Bruhns|journal=Nationality Rooms Newsletter|volume=95|date=Spring 2014|page=3|publisher=Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs at the University of Pittsburgh|access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref>
* Thai<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05132/503312-53.stm|title=U. of Pittsburgh Thai room planned|date=May 12, 2005|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>
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