Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:10 am
Gadianton wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:10 am
that's a nice chapel, Jersey Girl. I like the windows a lot. LDS chapels literally have no class. they are cinder block bomb-shelters with horrible square windows.
I like the simplicity and the clean lines. I find the flag near the pulpit jarring. Was it there when you were a kid.
It’s been so long, I can’t recall whether there was a flag in the LDS chapel I attended as a kid. Are there flags in the LDS chapels now? If so, has it always been that way?
There is a lot of wood work in there though I wouldn't call it ornate by any measure and I wish you could see the lights overhead. I remember when they put them in. They're very beautiful, light, and kind of ethereal. The building is nearly 100 years old. Yes, it was just like that, RI. American flag on one side and Christian flag on the other. I feel like when we had VBS we started in the morning with a pledge for both flags. (Where did that memory come from?)
The way you see it there just like that...picture a young Jersey Girl and JB their exchanging vows.
Reception was in the basement. The basement is very plain. Just classrooms and you know, support poles like any basement. It is used for classes and fellowship pot lucks as well.
One thing that I always thought was so lovely. On Christian holidays (that doesn't sound right, sacred days, ok?) my pastor's wife would put flowers around the altar rails. Pansies and Lily's in Spring and Poinsettias for Christmas. Years after I got married and had kids, I took my kids over to visit them at their house. I described the flowers to my pastor's wife and she got tears in her eyes. She was so pleased that I remembered her flowers.
Fun eyebrow raising memory. The pastor's father-in-law would sometimes play the organ when visiting. You know how they do a sort of whatever it's called...a prelude when people are coming in? He'd set the organ to sound like a Hawaiian steel guitar. That gave us kids a thrill!
Sooooooo many memories, RI. Before I left Jersey I donated my piano to the church. It sits in the basement to this day so part of me is still there. <3 I still have my attendance pin from the church so part of it is will me here.