Wait Chapel is a building on the campus of Wake Forest University. The first building constructed on the university's Reynolda campus, in October 1956, it is named for Samuel Wait, the university's first president. Its steeple reaches to 213 feet. The chapel stands on the northeastern side of Hearn Plaza (Upper Quad), opposite Reynolda Hall.
Wait Chapel
Wait Chapel's distinctive edifice dominates the main quad at Wake Forest University
The chapel, which seats 2,250 people, houses the Janet Jeffrey Carlile Harris Carillon of 48 bells and the Williams Organ, donated by Walter McAdoo Williams, namesake of Walter M. Williams High School.
The chapel is linked to a vast underground series of tunnels crisscrossing the campus carrying utilities.[5]
The congregation of Wake Forest Baptist Church holds regular Sunday services in the chapel. In the late 1990s the chapel became the center of controversy when members of the church decided to conduct a same-sex commitment ceremony; this became the subject of the documentary A Union in Wait.[6] Other events held in the chapel throughout the year, include a Moravianlovefeast during the Christmas season.
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^"King Asks Whites to Aid Integration" (PDF). Old Gold and Black. Vol. 48, no. 4. 15 October 1962. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
^Tooley, Elaine (7 June 2014). "A celebration of rising joy: Family, friends and honored guests remember Dr. Maya Angelou". Wake Forest University News Center. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
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