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chapel

[chap-uhl] / ˈtʃæp əl /


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The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee for a time hosted weddings in a chapel called the House of MatROOmony.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

With an open-door policy, the mission has been a refuge for as many a 1,000 people, at one point putting up hundreds of cots nightly in its chapel to accommodate women from the street.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Audrey Hepburn married her first husband Mel Ferrer in the Burgenstock's chapel in 1954, and they made the luxurious destination their home, living in the resort's Villa Bethania.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

The cover of “Communion” eschews the grandeur of a Catholic cathedral, in favor of a photograph of a humble Methodist chapel in a rural part of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Dr. Kerry appeared and announced that we’d been invited to take a tour of the chapel.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Homes were demolished, chapels flattened and communities displaced in Port Talbot when Wales' first stretch of motorway was built at a cost of more than £5m.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Metz has been allowed a pilot program, operating vessels inside two historic chapels in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

Broad curator Ed Schad notes in his catalog essay that Therrien made 57 different chapels over more than three decades.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

Many popes are buried in tombs in the grottos underneath St. Peter’s Basilica or in side chapels of the basilica itself, including all of Francis’ recent predecessors.

From Washington Times Dec. 13, 2023

Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants’ houses.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

So, too, the chapelled choir, with its apse of rounded vaults rising in imposing tiers.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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