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What is the capacity of the chapel? Seating capacity is 440 with a total occupancy rating of 650. How many parking spaces are in the chapel's parking lot? There are 111 regular spaces and four designated accessible spaces. Convenient handicap-accessible parking is located adjacent to the building on a first-come, first-served basis.
: pp.3–4 The removal of the partitions expanded the capacity of the chapel from 350 persons to 800. However, current fire codes limit capacity to 650. As the college chapel (1873–present) For its first fifty years, Kirkpatrick Chapel was used for daily worship services by the Rutgers College student body.
Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library was removed in 1903, thus increasing the seating capacity in the Chapel from 300 to 600 persons.
Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library was removed in 1903, thus increasing the seating capacity in the Chapel from 300 to 600 persons.
The History of Kirkpatrick Chapel. Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873), paid for by Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick, was originally a multipurpose building that housed the chapel, classrooms, offices, and the college library. Architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh designed the Gothic Revival style structure in the same brownstone as Geology Hall.
