Rollins Chapel
by Vadim Levin
Title
Rollins Chapel
Artist
Vadim Levin
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Rollins Chapel.
Rollins was dedicated in 1885 and has served as the College's spiritual center ever since. Today, the Chapel is used for Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Baha’i services, as well as for other student religious populations on campus.
Since its dedication in 1885 Rollins Chapel has served as the College's spiritual center, its physical arrangement being changed or modified as times warranted. Prior to its construction services were held in a large room in Dartmouth Hall which was also used for classes lectures and special events.
In June, 1883, the Honorable Edward Ashton Rollins offered to give the College $30,000 for the erection of chapel on the condition that $60,000 would be raised for a library in Wilson Hall. Work began on the new chapel in June 1884. The building, which President Lord described as "Romanesque in general style with entrances under heavy round arches," was constructed of pink granite with red sandstone trimming. Its floor plan was in the form of a Greek cross, and it had a seating capacity of about 600. The architect was John L. Faxon of Boston.
The continuous growth of the college soon necessitated an expanded seating capacity in the Chapel, and in 1908 the building was changed radically by moving the apse forty feet to the cast. Four years later, in 1912, the College again expanded Rollins Chapel by extending the transepts twenty feet and increasing the seating capacity to 1179.
In 1903 the steeple of Rollins Chapel was dedicated. Its peal of three bells bearing the following mottos: the largest Vox clamantis in deserto; middle Laus Deo; smallest, Gloria on excelsis, was a gift of the Honorable William E. Barrett '80 of Boston, in memory of Chalmers Williams Stevens, BS '77, Thayer School '80.
Source: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker/spiritual/rollins/
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