Showing posts with label Chapel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapel. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Ko Olina Chapel Place of Joy, Kapolei, O'ahu, Hawaii.


This is a wedding chapel, rather than a church, located on the shore at Kapolei, O'ahu, Hawaii.  It's included here as it is at least a quasi religious building and obviously built to resemble a church.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Our Lady of Light (Loretto) Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico















These photographs depict the Our Lady of Light (Loretto) Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Built from 1873 to 1878 for the Sisters of Loretto, who ran a school nearby, the chapel is famous for its spiral staircase, which has perplexed observers for decades. The staircase lacks a visible means of support, was built with only hammer and saw, and features only wooden nails.  The builder of the staircase is unknown, and left before being able to be paid.  Some claim the staircase as miraculous.  

The chapel was deconsecrated in 1971, following the closure of the school in 1968.  Today it is privately owned and features a museum and is used for a wedding chapel.

This chapel was built basically next door to the  Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, and was built while the cathedral was under construction.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Lex Anteinternet: The Flying V Cambria Inn, Weston County Wyoming.

Lex Anteinternet: The Flying V Cambria Inn, Weston County Wyoming.:

This building, built as a resort in Weston County Wyoming, is included here as it has a substantial attached chapel.


The Flying V  Cambria Inn, in Weston County Wyoming, provides an interesting look into the early resort era of hotels.  Located near where the former Wyoming mining town of Cambria had been, it was built in the style of an English manor house.




 The inn was built with a chapel, the side of which you see here.

 Chapel at the Cambria Inn.


Chapel.

Stained glass windows in chapel.  The window includes variants of the State Seal in two locations.


Some sort of propeller.

Balcony in chapel.


Window dedicated to fraternal organizations.

Bar in inn.

Ballroom in inn.

Ball room in inn.