Saint Augustine's University Historic Chapel is a historic
Episcopal chapel
A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...
located on the campus of
St. Augustine's University near downtown
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southe ...
. Built in 1895, it is one of the oldest buildings on the campus of St. Augustine's and has been designated as a Raleigh Historic Landmark.
The chapel was built with the patronage of the Episcopal Church
Freedmen's Bureau. Episcopal priest Rev.
Henry Beard Delany directed the construction; at the time he was an instructor of carpentry and masonry, as well as a chaplain and musician. The chapel was built by students of the college using stone from the Raleigh area.
The chapel houses the
cathedra of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, a memorial of Henry Delany's consecration as the first
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
Episcopal Bishop in North Carolina.
See also
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St. Mark's Chapel (Raleigh, North Carolina)
References
Episcopal church buildings in North Carolina
Churches in Raleigh, North Carolina
St. Augustine's University (North Carolina)
University and college chapels in the United States
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina
Episcopal chapels in the United States
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1895
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