University of Chicago to Open New Inter-Religious Center

November 20, 2003

Source: The University of Chicago Chronicle

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031120/rockefeller.shtml

On November 20, 2003 The University of Chicago Chronicle reported that Rockefeller Memorial Chapel will be the site of a new Inter-religious Center on Campus, celebrating many faith traditions. “This is a marvelous way for the chapel to continue to be relevant for a community whose religious complexion has totally changed since Rockefeller Chapel was built in 1928,” said Alison Boden, Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and Senior Lecturer in the Divinity School and the College. In 1928, said Boden, there was mandatory weekly attendance at a Christian service. “We are now a community of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahai’s, Sikh’s, Jain’s and more, and that’s all to the good.”