
“View of Eton College Chapel” 1834 William Ingalton
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
— C.S. Lewis
The founding of many education communities is inspired by faith communities. In many of them the place of worship was the very first building. College and university chapels are central places of worship for students, staff and faculty, and provide a space for solitude and reflection.
There are several hundred technical standards, or parts of standards, that govern how churches and chapels are made safe and sustainable. Owing to innovations in construction, operation and management methods, those standards move, ever so slightly, on a near-daily basis. They are highly interdependent; confounded by county-level adaptations; and impossible to harmonize by adoption cycle. That movement tracked here as best we can within the limit of our resources and priorities. That’s why it’s best to simply click into our daily colloquia if you have a question or need guidance.

The image criteria of our WordPress theme does not permit many images of college and university chapels to be shown fully-dimensioned on sliders or widget galleries. We reproduce a few of the outsized images here and leave the complexities of financing, designing, building and maintaining of them in a safe and sustainable manner for another day. CLICK HERE for the links to our Sacred Space Standards workspace.
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Orchard Lake Schools | Oakland County Michigan


Saint Leo University | Pasco County Florida


Newman University Chapel Dublin


Vilnius University


Mount St. Joseph University | Hamilton County Ohio


Marian University Indianapolis


Wittenberg University


Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem


University of San Diego


Augustana University | Minnehaha County South Dakota


Bucknell University Pennsylvania


Carroll College All Saints Chapel Montana


Marquette University Wisconsin


Saint Louis University Missouri


University of St. Thomas Minnesota


Keuka College New York


جامعة الأزهر (الشريف)


Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore


University of Chicago


Thomas Aquinas College California

St. Albans School | District of Columbia


Princeton University


Yale University


Harvard University


Piula Theological College Samoa


Universität zu Lübeck


Wycliffe College


Universitat de Barcelona


Hillsdale College


Liberty University


Gordon College


Colorado University Denver


Walla Walla University / Washington


University of the Incarnate Word / San Antonio, Texas


Pepperdine University / California


University of Kentucky


Loyola Marymount University / Los Angeles, California


Lourdes University


Seton Hall University


Durlston Court Prep School Chapel


Colorado University Denver


Luther College at the University of Regina / Saskatchewan, Canada


계명대학교 / Keimyung University Chapel, South Korea


U.S. Coast Guard Memorial Chapel | New London, Connecticut


Saint John’s University | Photo by Paul Middlestaedt


Trinity College / Hartford, Connecticut


Georgetown University Chapel | Washington, D.C.


Kings College Chapel | Auckland, New Zealand


Brigham Young University / Idaho


Newman University Church / Dublin


Our Lady of the Lake University / San Antonio, Texas


Southern Methodist University | Dallas, Texas


St. John’s College Oxford


United States Naval Academy Chapel


Wellington College Chapel


Fitzwilliam College Chapel Cambridge


Sorbonne Université


West Point | US Army Cadet Chapel


Hebrew Union College


Tuskegee University Chapel


The Spring Hill College Chapel | Mobile, Alabama


Boston University


University of Tennessee at Chattangooga


Wake Forest University


Auburn University Chapel


Davis & Elkins College


University of Tulsa


Randolph College Chapel


Sewanee | The University of the South


King’s College Chapel | University of Cambridge


Hope College | Holland, Michigan


Duke University | Durham, North Carolina


Christ’s Chapel | Hillsdale College, Michigan

Basilica of the Sacred Heart | University of Notre Dame | South Bend, Indiana


Three Faith Chapels | Brandeis University


University of Wroclaw | Jesuit College | Wrocław, Poland


Alma College Chapel | Alma, Michigan


Stanford Memorial Church | Palo Alto, California


Universidad Adventista Templo | Buenos Aires, Argentina


St. Thomas of Villanova University Chapel | Villanova, Pennsylvania


St. Paul’s Chapel | Columbia University | New York City


Scotch College Chapel | Melbourne, Australia


Princeton University Chapel


United States Air Force Cadet Chapel | Colorado Springs


Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne | Paris


Memorial Chapel | Glasgow University | Glasgow, Scotland


Alice Millar Chapel | Northwestern University


Bowdoin College Chapel | Brunswick, Maine


Loyola University Chapel | Madonna della Strada Chicago


Heinz Memorial Chapel | University of Pittsburgh


Madonna University Chapel | Livonia, Michigan


Vassar College Chapel | Poughkeepsie, New York


Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Chapel | Cambridge, Massachusetts


St. Ignatius Church | University of San Francisco

Church of the Resurrection | Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, Indiana


Baughman Center | University of Florida


Exeter College Chapel | Oxford University

More coming.
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