The National Cathedral is for everyone — except anyone who wants to remember the Confederacy.

Cathedral leaders announced today that they will remove two images of the Confederate battle flag from two 8-foot by 4-foot stained glass windows depicting military scenes.

The windows containing the flags were installed in 1953 to honor Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, NBC Washington reports.

According to Metro, the portions of the windows will be replaced with “plain glass,” with the unknown cost being borne by “private donors.”

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde wrote on the cathedral’s website:

For the past six months, a Windows Task Force appointed by the Cathedral Chapter has been examining a range of issues relating to stained glass windows in the Cathedral that pay tribute to Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

Specifically, the Task Force sought to examine more closely the origins of the Lee-­Jackson windows, the impact of racist symbols in 21st century America, and our role as stewards of the Cathedral’s mission and custodians of its history. Washington National Cathedral’s mission is to serve as a house of prayer for all people and a spiritual home for our nation. We bear a particular responsibility to ensure that all of God’s people feel welcomed in this sacred space. The Cathedral’s history also reflects our nation’s difficult struggle with the legacy of slavery. We are not unique in this struggle. We are one of many institutions–universities, local governments, and churches–confronting complicity with racism, past and present.

Budde says the removal is part of a broader effort by the church to confront race issues.

She writes, “Over the next two years the Cathedral will dedicate significant liturgical, artistic and programmatic resources to engage issues of race and the legacy of slavery that the windows represent.

“Our first program will be a panel on July 17, moderated by our Canon Theologian, the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, in conjunction with the 2016 March on Washington Film Festival, entitled ‘What The White Church Must Do,’ focused on the white church’s responsibility on racism and racial justice.”

“It would be easy to simply remove these symbols and go on with business as usual,” says Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, according to DCist. “We take down offending symbols all the time but never do anything about the culture that gave birth to them.”