The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

main entrance to the chapel and to the
basement rooms is through the tower from
Colfax avenue. The general plan of the
building conforms TO that of the Gothic
cathedral, with and transept, the
chapel being but extension OF one tran
sept in apsidal form with clere-story. The
front gable Is Surmounted by an illuml-
mated cross of copper and art glass. which
will cast its lighting rays athwart the dark
ened hours of evening service.
The foundation walls are of split granite
powders, found in this vicinity, while the
Indiana blue stone is used in the general
construction. with trimmings of Bedford
rock. The entire exterior of the building
has been treated by the paraffin process. by
means of which all dampness is kept from
the building and the original beauty of the
stone preserved from dirt or SCOT. The roof
is covered with red tile and the cornices
and cutters are OF copper.
On entering the building one is greeted
with the hospitality of the spacious corri-
doris, with their art mosaic floors. mahog-
any wainscoting and walls beautifully
frescoed in a soft. rich green. Through
noiseless doors richly paneled with plate
glass. he enters the sanctuary, model of
richness, beauty and simplicity. The interi-
or wood finish of the church and Sunday
school rooms is done in mahogany and red
birch; the walls and ceilings of hard plas-
ter, sand finished and frescoed in solid rich
cream color, free from all decorations. The
groups of supporting columns are frescoed
in plain mahogany color. The church ceiling
consists of two Gothic vaults, springing
from side walls and strengthened by heavy
mahoganiZed arches. An octagonal dome OF
art glass, eighteen feet in diameter at the
crossing of the ceiling vaults. forms a rich
decorative feature and admits a flood or
softened light through glass tiles In the
roof during the day. and from electric arc
lights suspended over the dome in the even
ing.
The main floor of the sanctuary. seated
with circular pews of the nodded form
pattern, on a slightly inclined floor, with
pulpit, choir and organ centrally located
at the end opposite the main entrance. to-
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across the end over the vestibule and part
of the main floor, afford ample and COM
Portable accommodations for the worship
ers The sanctuary contains four hundred
sittings on the first floor, and including
the gallery and choir. will make a total of
about six hundred for ordinary congrega-
tons The sanctuary and the Sunday school,
which are divided by an improved electri-
cally lifted sliding partition, when opened
into one vast auditorium will afford oppor-
tunity of comfortably seating fifteen hun
dred people.
The Sunday-school department consists of
a central room, "a by 40 feet in size, semi
circular in form and surrounded by two
tiers of classrooms, which, on the first floor.
consist of Epworth League parlor. first and
second primary rooms and five Bible class
rooms. The balcony floor consists of la,
dies parlor, seven Bible class rooms and
two adjacent rooms, making nineteen in all
available for Sunday-school work, all of
which open into each other as we'll as into
the main room by means of improved slid
ing and folding doors: these doors when
folded, can be placed back out of use and
obstruction, permitting. when occasion re-
quires it. and by raising, the large auto
matically operated partition, the throwing
together of the entire church into one vast
auditorium almost as satisfactorily as IL
especially designed as whole. The speaker
in that instance will occupy an elevated
pulpit located at the junction of the two
departments, which will enable him to be
seen and easily heard from any part of
either department. The same treatment and
wood work as of the sanctuary predomi-
mates throughout and is in keeping with it.
The entire building is lighted in the day.
time by dome, as previously described, in
the sanctuary. and a corresponding one in
the Sunday-school department, and both by
beautiful tracery Gothic windows set with
stained glass.
BEAUTIFUL WINDOWS.
In the main auditorium, the large win
dow, thirty feet high, facing Laporte ave-
nue. is a masterpiece of the artists rarest
ability. produced by Mayer & Co.. of
Munich. Bavaria, representing Paul
preaching on Mars hill, at Athens" illus