Voorhees Chapel (Rutgers)
Voorhees Chapel is one of two chapels on the campus of
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Built in 1925 with a donation from Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees, wife of Rutgers trustee Ralph Voorhees, the chapel once served the community of Douglass College
. Douglass, founded the New Jersey College for Women (founded in 1918), was the women's residential college at Rutgers.
The chapel is an example of
Sir Christopher Wren
.
The chapel houses a large mechanical-action pipe organ built by the
Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt
. The instrument has 3-manuals & pedals, 41 independent registers, 41 speaking stops, and 65 ranks.
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Voorhees Chapel (Rutgers University).
- Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts — Voorhees Chapel
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (official website)
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