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Memorial Chapel at Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D.C.

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The chapel serves as a memorial to the men and women who gave their lives in the service of their country Ñ and as a living memorial to the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross Volunteer Hospital Service. Named after the gray dress or apron and gray veil they were instructed to wear, the Gray Ladies deserve nearly all the credit for a decade of planning and fundraising required to build the chapel.

Upon signing the bill that authorized the chapel in February 1929, President Calvin Coolidge said, "This is the finest thing I have ever done." Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon set the cornerstone in May 1930, and a year later the chapel was officially dedicated. The first religious ceremony performed within the new chapel was a wedding.

The gray stone "Church of All Faiths" is reminiscent of those found in the English countryside. Indeed, the five-lance stained glass window above the marble altar was made in England. The sections each have themes relevant to both religion and the military. Ten other memorial windows also grace the chapel. Four gargoyles (two holding rectors, representing Science, and two holding scrolls, representing Religion) gaze out over the entire Army Medical Center from the tower. Sharing that view are four gargoyles of Gray Ladies. Everything in the chapel, from the foundation to the tower, is a memorial.

Text © 1998 Terry White, Drawing © 1998 Bill Harrah

HOUSES OF WORSHIP SELECTIONS:
Adat Reyim    Christ Church    Clifton Baptist Church    Clifton Presbyterian Church    The Falls Church    Fort Belvoir Chapel    Fredericksburg Baptist Church    Fredericksburg United Methodist Church    Memorial Chapel at Walter Reed Hospital    Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church    The Old Post Chapel    Pohick Episcopal Church, Truro Parish    The Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg    St. George's Episcopal Church    St. Joseph's Church    St. Mary's Catholic Church    St. Mary's Church    St. Peter's Lutheran Church    St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church    Trinity Episcopal Church, Sheperdstown    Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville    Truro Episcopal Church    Vienna Presbyterian Church    Wakefield Chapel    
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