Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Heinz Chapel, Oakland

Heinz Chapel

Heinz Chapel, built over five years from 1933 to 1938, is one of the complex of three great Charles Z. Klauder buildings at the center of the University of Pittsburgh, along with the Cathedral of Learning and the Stephen Foster Memorial. A while ago old Pa Pitt picked out some of the details with a long lens.

Heinz Chapel
Heinz Chapel
Entrance
Reliefs over the entrance
Reliefs over the entrance
Lamb
Reliefs and Gothic decorations

The decorations include the arms of various colleges and universities.

Reliefs and Gothic decorations
Reliefs and Gothic decorations
Reliefs and Gothic decorations
Reliefs and Gothic decorations
Pinnacle
Base of the spire
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.


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