That kind of seating arrangement promotes more of a close, family feeling for both speakers and listeners, Radelich says. He sees the incorporation of eighteen exits, that can be easily accessed and quickly reached from just about any point in the dome, as another advantage of a round design. It s an impressive structure, Radelich says and describes the outside of the Monolithic Dome complex as looking like a circle surrounded by a square, with the two shapes complementing each other. The square surrounding the dome divides into four quadrants that include a day care center, a bible college, administrative offices and the art department. In the dome s construction, it s very center or apex was not treated with acoustic material, so that center is just a hard shell.
Acoustic material wraps around the entire dome from that point downward.
Consequently, when you stand in the center of our island platform, there is an echo in that area. According to Radelich, it s really the speaker standing at the platform s center, rather than the audience, for whom the echo is bothersome. He says, We tell our speakers to move around and not stand in the center, and we ve overcome much of that problem with some audio engineering. So, overall we re very happy with the sound in the dome. In 1992 in a book titled Courage to Conquer, Sumrall wrote, As you submit to the Lordship of Christ, don t back away from the changes that you will see.