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Confederate Memorial Chapel

Richmond, US

Confederate Memorial Chapel

Confederate Memorial Chapel is a historic interdenominational memorial chapel located in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated on May 8, 1887, it is a white frame, Gothic Revival style structure with a clipped gable roof of grey tin and a belfry. The chapel's construction was funded by private citizens, vet

erans, and the proceeds from benefit auctions of donated tobacco, totaling $4,000. The chapel served as a place of worship for the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home, which was the nation's first successful and longest operating residential complex for Confederate veterans of the Civil War. Not only did the chapel represent a place of worship, but it also played a significant role in the daily lives of those that lived at the soldiers' home as the structure served as an auditorium for lectures, concerts, and meeting. The chapel also held the distinction for holding approximately 1,700 funeral services. The chapel's interior is of pine with vaulted ceilings. Rows of hand-hewn pews face a raised chancel furnished with gothic revival chairs, lectern, and pulpit. These are then framed by a soaring three-arch opening inscribed with gilded lettering. The central arch proclaims: "This Chapel...

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