BOERUM HILL — A Brooklyn-based artist created the largest permanent artwork commissioned for St. Patrick’s Cathedral since its opening in 1876.

The mural, called “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding” by Boerum Hill resident Adam Cvijanovic, will be dedicated during a Mass at the church on Sept. 21.

The mural is 25 feet high and depicts individual figures that are historic and contemporary, many at life size or larger. It also honors the Apparition at Knock, celebrates the faith of generations of immigrants to New York City, and recognizes the city’s first responders.

It will cover all three walls within the cathedral’s Fifth Avenue entrance vestibule.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photo courtesy of St. Patrick’s Cathedral

The Archdiocese of New York invited artists

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