Keeping The Faith

Would make a wonderful gift. This would be lovely in your beautiful home or office.... more

by Kay Novy

Title

Keeping The Faith

Artist

Kay Novy

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Would make a wonderful gift. This would be lovely in your beautiful home or office.

A beautiful steeple cross on the historic St Mary's church in the Kemper Center located in Kenosha Wisconsin, USA.
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Built in 1875 to serve the needs of the Sisters of St. Mary and later for the new Kemper Hall girls school, the Chapel was a simple prairie chapel until 1889 when the rood screen, designed by Kemper student Anna Upjohn, was added. In 1904 the chapel was expanded and the baptistery was added.
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Memorials and other gifts were responsible for the addition of brass panels, tabernacle and stained glass windows. The earliest stained glass in the Chapel came from Germany. The Angel and Mary windows were made in London in the 1890s and the Nativity window is in the Tiffany style. The hand carved altar, reredos and pews came from Oberamergau, Germany in the 1890s.
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Every year many couples exchange their wedding vows before the altar where Kemper Hall students and the Sisters of St. Mary worshiped daily. The small side chapel, once known as the Meditation Chapel,h, was recently redecorated and serves as the bridefs dressing room. The groomfs dressing room now occupies the space that was the sacristy.
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The atmosphere and wonderful acoustics in the Chapel continually attract musical groups and audiences alike, and many concerts are performed here.

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March 18th, 2012