The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-01
DOVES NEW TEMPLE.
Imposing Features Of Proposed
Tabernacle For Zionists.
IT WILL SEAT SIXTEEN THOUSAND


Two Hundred Persons Can BE Bap-
tiEed at once In the siaain, which
VIII Be ruled with FIowing wa
ter Coming From waterfall.
Building 10 Cost 100000.
John Alexander Dowie, head Of the
Christian Catholic Church In Zion, near
Chicago, has planned for his capital On
the shore of Lake Michigan what he
says Will be the largest tabernacle in
the nation devoted exclusively to the
worship Of God. The structure will
cost half million dollars and seat
10000 persons. It will occupy a ground
space Of $50 By $40 fees and will be
oriental in architecture.
Leaves Of Healing, the official organ
through which Mr.. Dowie talks to his
followers and to the world, gives the
following description Of the tabernacle
in part:
The great feature OF the interior
will Of course, be the auditorium.
The construction viii be ii the shape
Of a horseshoe and must solve many
difficult problems in the arrangement
Of SO many thousand seats. in yentila-
ton and. most difficult OF all, ID ocous-
tics. The choir gallery win be made
TO seat l,600 persons The speakers
platform is to be ellipticai iii shape.
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THE seats in the choir and officers
galleries will be arranged ait an angle
sufficient to show the face Of every one
distinctly 70 the audience. Back Of
the choir and In ,Iine with the center
Of the building a great pipe organ will
be built. The organ viii be so placed
that the organist viii face the au-
ditorium.
1.-TWO large galleries. in the shape Of
q horseshoe, will be built in such a
manner that the public finding seats
there will be able to see plainly the
face OF every one sitting on the plat
form. These galleries viii seat about
$500, the ground floor about 6,000, the
choir and officers galleries about 1000,
giving a total seating capacity Of 16,-
900 persons.
Elevators will be provided at the
main entrance to lift the people to
these galleries. On the east side Of the
galleries will be four stairways, three
on the south side and three on ths
north side; one stairway at each ont
Of the four corners Of the building
and two more in the rear of the choil
gallery. These sixteen stairways con
meet directly with the outside and Al
/ exits will be Of inevitable use in empty
ing the vast auditorium quickly and i
an orderly manner should the occasion
I ever require.
1.-THE dome of the auditorium is to b.
constructed Of steel and covered part,
with glass and partly with sheet meta
and at the highest point will be 16I
/ feet from the ground floor. On the in
terror the dome will measure 1872 fee
in diameter, varying in height from 10
feet on the sides to I35 feet from tn
floor to the center.
electricity will be used in lighting
the tabernacle Thousands OF incan
descent lamps will be required.
zone Of the most unusual and at
tractiye features Of the new SHILOH
tabernacle will be the baptistry. Or
either side Of the basement, directly
under the choir gallery, robing room;
for the candidates for baptism will BE-
arranged. on one side the women, OF
the other the men. Both rooms will b
20 BY IS feet in size.
con leaving the robing room the can
didates go directly to the riverlike bap
tistry by way Of separate corridors ON
for men and one for women, entirely
hidden from public view until the largl
stairways leading into the baptistrl
proper are reached Two hundred per
sons may be baptized at one time ans
so complete viii be the arrangement
| that 900 can easily be baptized in on
hour.
Candidates viii enter the baptistrl
from one corridor and pass through an
other on the other side to reach thei
roblng rooms after the ceremony.
"The baptistry basin will be twent.
! feet wide and sixty-fve feet long. /
il to be arranged with flowers AM
shrubbery, while the water win com
from waterfall under the speaker