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Site 9 on the St. Louis Sundial Trail:
Concordia Seminary
(38°38'16.28"N, 90°18'41.62"W)
Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, is a small Lutheran-institution having 36 faculty
members that provide theological education for a student body of about 575 students. A horizontal
sundial is located adjacent to the campus bookstore. The pedestal has a plaque mounted at its base, as
seen in figure at the right. It indicates that the sundial is dedicated as a memorial to former
seminary student Andrew Cihaj (1913-1937) by his classmates in the class of 1937. The sundial has a
bronze dial-plate, shown below, that is shaped as an octagon measuring about 8 inches between opposing
sides. Hour and half-hour time lines are marked from 4 AM to 8 PM; they are worn with effects
of passing time. The plate bears the inscription, WORK FOR THE NIGHT COMETH. The gnomon
has been missing since 2009 when the sundial was vandalized. In Dec. 2017, William Turner, of Turner & Associates
in St. Louis, made a new gnomon of bronze, which is now mounted on the plate.
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The restored sundial at Concordia Seminary is seen below. Eventually, the color of the new bronze gnomon will
approach that of the dial plate as the natural patina-process progresses.
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