Washington National Cathedral

===Major services===
[[File:REAGANWNC.jpg|thumb|The 2004 state funeral of the 40th President, [[Ronald Reagan]]|upright=1.2]]
State funerals for four [[President of the United States|American presidents]] have been held at the cathedral:<ref name="Washington National Cathedral - Presidential Funerals">{{Cite web |title=Presidential Funerals |url=https://cathedral.org/history/prominent-services/presidential-funerals/ |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=Washington National Cathedral |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/former-president-george-hw-bush-dead-at-age-94.html |title=Former President George HW Bush dies at 94; Trump designates Wednesday as national day of mourning, markets to close |first=Cynthia |last=Johnson |website=CNBC |date=November 30, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Zeke |last2=Lucey |first2=Catherine |date=December 1, 2018 |title=Trumps to Attend State Funeral for George H.W. Bush |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-remember-george-hw-bush-for-unflappable-leadership/2018/12/01/f1b99178-f533-11e8-99c2-cfca6fcf610c_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202070714/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-remember-george-hw-bush-for-unflappable-leadership/2018/12/01/f1b99178-f533-11e8-99c2-cfca6fcf610c_story.html |archive-date=December 2, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
* 34th President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (1969): [[lay in repose]] at the cathedral before [[lying in state]]
* 40th President [[Ronald Reagan]] (2004)
* 38th President [[Gerald Ford]] (2007)
* 41st President [[George H. W. Bush]] (2018)

Memorial services were also held at the cathedral for the following presidents:<ref name="Washington National Cathedral - Presidential Funerals" />
* (29th) [[Warren G. Harding]]
* (27th) [[William Howard Taft]]
* (30th) [[Calvin Coolidge]]
* (33rd) [[Harry S. Truman]]
* (37th) [[Richard Nixon]]

Presidential prayer services were held the day after the [[United States presidential inauguration|inaugurations]] for:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalcathedral.org/about/presidentialInaugurals.shtml |title=Presidential Inaugural Prayer Services at Washington National Cathedral |website=Washington National Cathedral |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402023439/http://cathedral.org/about/presidentialInaugurals.shtml |archive-date=April 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 32nd President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s second inauguration in January 1937
* 40th President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s second inauguration in 1985
* 41st President [[George H. W. Bush]]'s inauguration in 1989
* 43rd President [[George W. Bush]]'s first and second inaugurations in 2001 and 2005
* 44th President [[Barack Obama]]'s first and second inaugurations in 2009 and 2013
* 45th President [[Donald Trump]]'s inauguration in 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cathedral.org/event/58th-presidential-inaugural-prayer-service/ |title=The 58th Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service |website=Washington National Cathedral |access-date=April 23, 2018}}</ref>
* 46th President [[Joe Biden]]'s inauguration in 2021

[[File:Washington National Cathedral (March For Our Lives prayer and vigil).jpg|thumb|Prayer and vigil for the [[March for Our Lives]] rally, March 23, 2018|upright=1.2]]

Other events have included:
* Funeral for former first lady [[Edith Wilson]] (1961)<ref name="Washington National Cathedral - Presidential Funerals" />
* Memorial service for former first lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] (1962)<ref name="Washington National Cathedral - Presidential Funerals" />
* Memorial service and interment of [[Helen Keller]] (1968)<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 4, 1968|title=Service for Helen Keller |work=Canberra Times |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107055476?searchTerm=Helen%20Keller|page=[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107055476/11662132 Page 5 ] col 1 |access-date=November 13, 2022|quote=Miss Keller's body was cremated today at a private ceremony. The ashes will be taken to Washington tomorrow and will be placed in a crypt in the cathedral following the service.}}</ref>
* Memorial service for the casualties of the [[Vietnam War]] on November 14, 1982
* Funeral for Supreme Court Justice [[Thurgood Marshall]] on January 29, 1993
* Public funeral for Chief of Naval Operations, [[United States Navy]], Admiral [[Jeremy Michael Boorda]] (1996)
* Funeral for [[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]] [[Ron Brown|Ronald Brown]] (1996)
* Funeral for U.S. Ambassador to France [[Pamela Harriman]] (1997)
* Memorial service following the [[death of Diana, Princess of Wales]] (September 6, 1997)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/cathedral.htm|title=Washington Says Goodbye to Diana|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Retha|last=Hill|date=September 6, 1997|access-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708222454/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/cathedral.htm|archive-date=July 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Funeral for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' newspaper publisher [[Katharine Graham]] (2001)
* Memorial service for the victims of the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001, attacks]]
* Special [[Evening Prayer (Anglican)|evensong]] for the victims of the [[Virginia Tech shooting]]
* Funeral for educator and national civil rights leader [[Dorothy Height]] (2010)
* Memorial service for [[NASA]] [[astronaut]] and first person on the Moon [[Neil Armstrong]] (2012)
* Funeral for [[United States Senator|Senator]] [[Daniel Inouye]] of [[Hawaii]], [[President Pro Tempore of the Senate]], and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (2012)
* Funeral for [[Charles Colson]], founder of Prison Fellowship (2012)<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 16, 2012 |title=Charles W. Colson Funeral |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/charles-w-colson-funeral/2012/05/16/gIQAihZMUU_gallery.html |access-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref>
* Memorial service for former [[South African President]] and anti-apartheid activist [[Nelson Mandela]] (2014)
* Interfaith service of Prayer and Remembrance: The Fifteenth Anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001, attacks]], Sunday September 11, 2016
* March for Our Lives Prayer Vigil: A vigil for "activists, students and pilgrims" participating in the [[March for Our Lives]] anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. and other cities, Friday March 23, 2018<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cathedral.org/event/march-lives-prayer-vigil/ |title=March for Our Lives Prayer Vigil |website=Washington National Cathedral |access-date=March 23, 2018}}</ref>
* Funeral for U.S. Senator [[John McCain]] of [[Arizona]] (September 1, 2018)
*Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for [[Matthew Shepard]] (October 26, 2018).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cathedral.org/matthewshepard|title=Celebration of Life and Interment for Matthew Wayne Shepard}}</ref>
*Funeral for U.S. Army General (Ret.), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State [[Colin Powell]] (November 5, 2021). 
*Funeral for U.S. Senator [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]] (December 10, 2021)
*Funeral for former [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] and diplomat [[Madeleine Albright]] (April 27, 2022)
*Memorial service following the [[death of Queen Elizabeth II]] (September 21, 2022)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a41245384/donald-trump-barack-obama-george-bush-queen-elizabeth-memorial/|title=All of the Living Former Presidents Have Been Invited to a Memorial for Queen Elizabeth|work=Town & Country|first=Lauren|last=Hubbard|date=September 16, 2022|accessdate=September 16, 2022}}</ref>

It was from Washington National Cathedral's "Canterbury Pulpit" that [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] delivered his final Sunday sermon on March 31, 1968, just 4 days before his assassination on April 4, 1968.<ref>{{Cite speech |last=King |first=Martin Luther Jr. |date=March 31, 1968 |access-date=June 14, 2011 |via=mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu |title=Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution |url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_remaining_awake_through_a_great_revolution/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603032638/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_remaining_awake_through_a_great_revolution |archive-date=June 3, 2011}}</ref> A memorial service for King was held at the cathedral later the same week.