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The Sky Chapel was created in 1952 as a gift from the Walgreen family in memory of Charles Walgreen, the founder of the eponymous pharmacy chain. [2] At 400 ft (120 m) above ground level, it is considered the world's highest worship space and contains 16 stained glass windows.
According to a local legend, the church was hewn during the sixth century, and dedicated to Abuna Yemata (also referred to as Abba Yem'ata), one of the Nine Saints.The Nine Saints are traditionally believed to have originated from Rome, Constantinople, and Syria between the end of the fifth and beginning of the sixth centuries.
An example of a chapel that features star-painted vaults is the Sainte-Chapelle, located in Paris, France. The vaults of the upper-chapel feature gold painted stars on a dark blue background. [7] The earliest known instance of a star-painted vault related to Christianity is a baptistery at the city of Dura-Europos which is dated approximately ...
The sky disc is centered on the north pole star, with Ursa Minor depicted as a jackal. [3] An inner disc is composed of constellations showing the signs of the zodiac. [a] Some of these are represented in the same Greco-Roman iconographic forms as their familiar counterparts (e.g. the Ram, Taurus, Scorpio, and Capricorn), [b] whilst others are shown in a more Egyptian form: Aquarius is ...
Sky Church, a glass building also completed in 1956, was destroyed by the Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987. Memorial Chapel has three tall white spires. It was completed in 1964 as a memorial to John D. Gregg, President of Rose Hills from 1950 to 1959 and son of Rose Hills founder Augustus Gregg. Memorial Chapel seats approximately 192 people.
The Sky of Salamanca (El Cielo de Salamanca) [1] is a mural painting attributed to Fernando Gallego that corresponds to the third part of the decoration of the vault of the old Library of the Major Schools of the University of Salamanca. The original vault was painted in the 1480s and occupied the upper part of the current chapel of San Jerónimo.
The Chapel of the Ascension (Hebrew: קפלת ... It was a rotunda, open to the sky, surrounded by circular porticoes and arches. [5] The Imbomon, ...
The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]