Carr Memorial Chapel
Chicago, United States
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The Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, colloquially known as the "God Box," is a one-story brick chapel designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and 32nd Street on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago. Built in the late 1940s following a proposal by Bishop Wallace Conkling of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, it stands as the only religious structure designed by the renowned German-American modernist architect, who served as director of IIT's School of Architecture. Conceived as a "great educational project of the atomic age," the chapel now serves as the campus center for spiritual life, hosting meditation, weekly services, and meetings for the university's religious and spiritual organizations.
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- Chicago, United States
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