Fort Bragg’s $13.5M Chapel to be Dedicated in Time for Holidays
Construction is complete on the US Army’s newest chapel facility on Fort Bragg, and the chapel will open in time for holiday services. The complex, billed as the first chapel built on the base since Vietnam, has a sprawling campus and a main sanctuary that has double the capacity of the Division Memorial Chapel it is intended to replace:
At 22,600 square-feet, the complex includes a worship and activity center, expansion area, gathering area, lobby, clergy and staff offices, baptistery and sacristy suites, meditation and reconciliation room, kitchen, choir room, nursery, and vestibules. With a seating capacity of 629, the new facility is twice as large as the old chapel, which only seats 300. The facility spans 9 acres located off Ardennes Road next to the 82nd Airborne Division Memorial Museum.
The chapel also boasts some significant historical content:
One of the most distinguishing features of the chapel is Read more