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chapel
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chapel a small building for Christian worship; part of a large church or cathedral with its own altar and dedication. The word is recorded from Middle English and comes via Old French from medieval Latin
cappella, diminutive of
cappa ‘cap or cape’ (the first chapel being a sanctuary in which St
Martin's cloak was preserved).
chapel of ease a chapel situated for the convenience of parishioners living a long distance from the parish church; the term is recorded from the mid 16th century.
Chapel Royal the body of clergy, singers, and musicians employed by the English monarch for religious services, now based at St James's Palace, London. Among members of the Chapel Royal have been Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and Henry Purcell.
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Chapel in the Kudzu: a decades-old promise is kept with the construction of a country wedding chapel for a special girl.
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...ready to get married, they would build a chapel for her wedding. Such an incredible promise...boy, the ring and the date. Where's the chapel?" Mitchell asked. "I had planned to build a chapel (for years)," explains Freeman, a multi...
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Daily Chapel Provides Time To Pause, Reflect
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 3/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...been dismissed, and the bells in Boe Memorial Chapel's tower are ringing. The next class period...students, faculty and staff make their way to Boe Chapel to participate in the ritual of daily chapel. This brief, 20-minute service of scripture...
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Chapel Hill Broadband, Bandwidth.com Forge Partnership.
Business Wire; 7/24/2000; 700+ words
; Business Editors/High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C. & SALT LAKE CITY...Broker of Wholesale Telecommunications Chapel Hill Broadband, a carrier-neutral broker...brokering wholesale telecommunications deals, Chapel Hill Broadband's staff of telecom professionals...
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CHAPEL PLAN STILL CHAFES CATHOLIC FAITHFUL REMAIN UNSETTLED OVER FATE OF ST. MARY'S OLD FACILITY
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press; 6/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...might have been the final service at the embroiled chapel Thursday morning. A group of about 30 hospital...move the Eucharist from the large, freestanding chapel to a new small, interim chapel located in the Women and Children's Hospital...
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Chapel Haven program heads west ?
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 2/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...first place outside New Haven with its own Chapel Haven. The program will teach independent...the agency's executive director. Chapel Haven, a local nonprofit agency, made...disabilities to learn how to live independently. Chapel Haven West in Arizona, slated to open...
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Chapel a popular spot for Indiana U. students, alumni to wed
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/7/2006; ; 681 words
; ...BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Walking into Beck Chapel is like disappearing into warm memories...fulfilled within the walls. No wonder the chapel means so much to so many. To Chris and Alicia Dickens, Beck Chapel signifies love and romance. Having just...
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Welsh Chapels in Crisis.
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...appearance of these chapels before they disappear...trace. The Welsh chapel is the only architectural...attended weekly chapel. Chapels were not only places...Liberation Society; many chapel-goers became politically...Nonconformity -- its chapels and use of the Welsh...
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Airport chapels offer haven to more faiths
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...faithful who make a stop in the chapel. Across the country, chapels designed to offer passengers...having four or five very small chapels, we've got one nice-sized chapel," he said, referring to chapels across the country. "And it...
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CHAPEL AT VU GETTING A FACE LIFT
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/7/1989; 700+ words
; PHOTO - 2 (1 COLOR) The Chapel of the Resurrection on the campus of...varnish near the huge pipe organ in the Chapel of the Resurrection. (Photo by David...and glass and marred the face of the chapel that towers 98 feet above the campus...
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Chapel tradition stands test of time; At St. Olaf College, students and staffers still gather for daily prayers. It's a tradition that has survived change and challenge.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ones and twos, people trickle into the chapel at St. Olaf College on a cloudy Thursday...up because of the death. St. Olaf has chapel every weekday morning. That tradition...University, founded by Methodists, required chapel ended in the 1960s and daily services...
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chapel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...relatively small number of chapels. In France the Lady Chapel (dedicated to the...possible. The two main chapels at the Vatican are the Pauline Chapel (1540), designed...famous French modern chapels (built in the 1950s) are the chapel at Vence designed...
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Chapel Royal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Chapel Royal. No one institution was more useful...the development of Eng. mus. than the Chapel Royal—by which must be properly...of Edward IV (1461–83) the Chapel consisted of 26 chaplains and clerks, 13...
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Sistine Chapel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sistine Chapel [for Sixtus IV ], private chapel of the popes in Rome, one of the principal glories of the...its decorations. By far the best-known achievements in the chapel are the work of Michelangelo . Across the ceiling he painted...
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chapel royal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
chapel royal. A private chapel attached to a royal court. In England the Chapel Royal and Royal Peculiars are not subject to the jurisdiction...sovereign, which is exercised by the ‘Dean of the Chapels Royal’.
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ante-chapel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
ante-chapel. Part of a chapel situated at its west end, like transepts , serving as a volume before the chapel proper, e.g. Magdalen and Merton College Chapels, Oxford.
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