The Upper Room Chapel and Christian Art Museum
If you find your needs for country music filled, and would like to step away from the merriment for a time of reflection, I would like to suggest a visit to The Upper Room Chapel and Christian Art Museum.
This chapel and museum are easy to access, and worth a stop. There is a wood sculpture, based on Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper, created by Ernest Pellegrini, which regardless of your spiritual beliefs, will cause you to pause and admire the workmanship and beauty of this rendition of a pivotal moment in Christendom.
I do not feel that I can do this piece justice, thus a picture of a postcard photographed by Carter Bock
Details worth noting throughout the Chapel
I loved both of these paintings, Christ preaching the Sermon on the Mount
Christ entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
Another postcard view, by Byron Jonjorian; the window is truly spectacular
“The tall, stained glass window at the back of the chapel is the World Christian Fellowship Window. Twenty feet high and eight feet wide, with over 9,000 pieces of glass, it was created by the D’Ascenzo Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The window commemorates the presence of the Holy Spirit in the original upper room twenty centuries ago. But more than that event, the window depicts the work of servants of Christ who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit down through the centuries since Pentecost.
The World Christian Fellowship Window was dedicated on Pentecost Sunday, May 17, 1959, six years after the opening of The Upper Room® Chapel.”
The Upper Room Chapel and Museum
1908 Grand Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212
1-877-899-2780 ext.7207
615-340-7207
http://chapel.upperroom.org/the-chapel
