CHAPEL
OF THE RESURRECTION The Chapel of the Resurrection is central to the lives of the residents of Spring Lake Village. This community, built by the Episcopal Homes Foundation, provides facilities where 450 men and women, average age 78, can live the rest of their lives in some semblance of dignity, order and accomplishment.
In exterior appearance it is a modest
building, square in plan, designed by architect Varoujan Hailozian. The pyramidal roof
rises to a four armed cross transfixing the outlines of a sphere which represents the
world Christ came to redeem and for which He died. Over the altar the ten foot cross of
had-hewn wood hangs on heavy chains that go up seemingly through the skylight to the
exterior cross above. The altar cross is bursting into a bloom of iron flowers which is
surmounted by a massive iron crown fashioned by artist Stephen Bondi.
The new organ that now graces this extraordinary chapel is a Protégé AP-15, by Allen Organ Company, and uses Allen's patented Renaissance™ technology. It is a two-manual AGO instrument and is equipped with a MDS-Expander II which adds 100 organ and orchestral voices to the organ specification.
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Finally,
the vine and its branches spread to the line of windows on three sides
of the square that divide the teak wood walls from the soaring roof.