Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
As you can see from the featured image, Heinz Chapel was undergoing some repairs while we were on campus. We’ve been there before, and some of you might remember some of the photos I have in today’s gallery. Actually, you might remember some of the text.
Heinz Chapel is a nondenominational chapel located opposite the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The French Gothic Revival chapel was gift to the university from Henry John Heinz to honor his mother, Anna Margaretta Heinz. Work began on the chapel in 1933 and it was dedicated in 1938.
The following is from the dedication ceremony.
“The chapel is designed as a fitting center of worship which in various ways will rise at the University. The character, intensity, the level of that worship may change from generation to generation. The spiritual tide in men rises and falls. Through these changes though, the Chapel will stand, calm and undisturbed.”
John Gabbert Bowman, Chancellor – University of Pittsburgh, 1938
In addition to some wonderful doors, Heinz Chapel is well known for its stained glass windows. The following is from the Chapel’s website.
The 73-foot transept windows, among the tallest in the world, represent the character traits of tolerance, courage, temperance, and truth. A symbol of each trait is in the tracery. The windows, which highlight an equal number of women and men, contain sacred and secular figures from history, literature, and science. A rosette above each set of windows contains a red-winged seraph on the north and a blue-winged cherub on the south.
Heinz Chapel Website
In other news, as of Wednesday evening, we have 23 creative entries in the Thursday Doors Writing Challenge. I have read each one, and they are great.
I hope you have a chance to visit the doors that have been submitted for this week’s challenge. We will likely end up with over two dozen doors from all over the world.
All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.
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