Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, with its Interreligious Center, serves as the hub of spiritual life at the University of Chicago, offering diverse religious events and ceremonies on a daily basis, as well as regular interreligious gatherings. In addition, Rockefeller hosts major performing arts and academic events, and serves as the locus for University-wide gatherings and celebrations of many different kinds, including Convocations. The Chapel was built with a grandeur of scale and intent, and is used today in ways which play to its strengths: speaking to the nobility of the human capacity for awe and profound quest for meaning. The Dean and Spiritual Life staff take a lead in addressing the complex and often contradictory issues related to practiced religion on campus and in society at large, working with colleagues in the University and wider community to shape a broad and inclusive interreligious life for the 21st century – an engaged pluralism consonant with the values of a proudly secular institution and cognizant of the need to create respectful human religious encounter grounded in rigorous inquiry.