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Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas at St Catherine's Academy

Anaheim | United States of America (USA)

Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas at St Catherine's Academy

Anaheim | United States of America (USA)
Wzniesiona w latach 1956-1958 według projektu Jerzego Szeptyckiego Kaplica św. Tomasza z Akwinu jest przykładem modernistycznej architektury sakralnej w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki.

The chapel was built by architect Jerzy Szeptycki in 1956-1958 in modernist style. The building is rectangular in plan, steel structure infilled with bricks and stained glass walls, arcades on steel columns, obscured by openwork cement panels; free-standing belfry plastered white and decorated with mosaics. The Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas is located in the grounds of St Catherine's Academy; a Catholic boarding school for boys. It is decorated by artist John Henry de Rosen and is dedicated to the memory of Captain William Maguire, a cadet chaplain in the 1950s.

Related persons:

Jan Henryk Rosen
Jerzy Szeptycki

Time of construction:

1956-58

Creator:

Jan Henryk Rosen (malarz; Polska, Niemcy, Francja, USA)(preview), Jerzy Szeptycki (inżynier, architekt; Polska, USA)(preview)

Keywords:

architecture, sacred architecture, interior design, chapel, architecture after 1945

Publication:

19.08.2023

Last updated:

19.02.2026
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