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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
A Visit to Caldwell Chapel in Louisville
I made my first visit to Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary last week for a
consultation of religion websites supported by Lilly Endowment (as ours is).
This included my first visit to the soaring and sturdy Caldwell Chapel. The most striking thing about this worship space is its verticality—the sloped beams, which supply the chapel’s architectural energy, thrust your eyes and your soul upward. But while this chapel is an allusion to Gothic cathedrals, the space does not overly compromise the horizontal commonality of worshipers the way cathedrals often do.
As I stood in solitude in the empy chapel, the wood around me creaked, splitting the silence; it felt like the building was breathing.
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 10/25 at 11:32 AM
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