ART - Princeton Church, NEW JERSEY

Description: ART - Princeton University Chapel, NEW JERSEY: The Princeton University Chapel is the religious and ceremonial center for Princeton University. Completed in 1928, the University formally opens and closes the academic year with an interfaith service in the chapel and it is the site of special services of music and thanksgiving and concerts throughout the academic year. This beautiful and sacred place is an oasis in the middle of campus and people of all faiths are welcome for prayer and meditation each day from 7am to 11pm. When completed in 1928 at a cost of more than two million dollars, this imposing college chapel - capable of seating two thousand - was second in size only to the chapel at King’s College, Cambridge University. The style conformed with the Tudor Gothic that had been adopted for Blair Hall in 1897 as well as other buildings that were constructed during the succeeding several decades. Many Princetonians are remembered in the Chapel’s stained-glass windows and in engravings on the pews, on memorial stones on the walls, in the silver communion chalices, memorial hymnals, and on many of the furnishings. John Witherspoon, sixth president of the College and the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, is pictured in the Great South Window (Christ the Teacher). The figure of James Madison, Witherspoon’s student, is in the Window of the Law, high up in the south clerestory near the entrance of the chapel. The oak pews in the nave are made from wood originally intended for Civil War gun carriages. The magnificent pulpit, brought from France, probably dates back to the mid-16th century and had been painted bright red prior to its installation in this chapel. The wood for the pews in the chancel, where the choir and clergy are seated for services, came from Sherwood Forest in England and took 100 people over a year to carve. The statues adorning these pews represent figures in the history of music, scholars, and teachers of the church. In the center of the chancel is the Great East Window (The Love of Christ). The chancel is flanked by six bays of windows, the first two representing two psalms of David, and the remaining windows depicting cycles from four great Christian epics: Dante’s Comedia, Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. The Chapel is also decorated with 25-foot silk paintings by Juanita Y. Kauffman (Link is external) (Link opens in new window). The Threshold paintings were commissioned for the University's 250th anniversary in 1996, and the Ascent: Blue River paintings were commissioned for and unveiled during the Pentecost of 1999. Its magnificent Mander-Skinner organ - featuring 109 stops and 8,000 pipes - was completely renovated in 1991 by N. P. Mander Ltd. of England creating a magnificent instrument in the English cathedral style and is especially well-suited to the grandeur of the Chapel. This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. Charles H Overly Studio. Harvard, Ma.

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