Final touches on the four-story, 120,000-square-foot St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary are being made in anticipation of the hundreds of people who will tour the multi-winged building during a public inauguration and blessing on Friday, Nov. 4.

The event, which is free and open to the community, will be marked by a 10 a.m. mass, a luncheon and the public’s only opportunity to tour the building.

The celebration of the years-long $35 million project, whose phase one includes construction of the seminary and administration building, will draw bishops and priests from across the globe, said Father Steven Reuter, the project’s manager.

According to its website, the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary is a house of studies of the Society of St. Pius X, established in the United States in 1973, for the formation of Roman Catholic priests according to the traditional teaching of the church. “St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary draws from the greatest riches of the 2,000-year history of the church in the formation of her priests,” the website reads.