Editing Princeton University (section)

====University Chapel====
[[File:Pu-chapel-front.jpg|thumb|Finished in 1928, the [[Princeton University Chapel]] seats 2,000 people.|alt=A picture of the Princeton University Chapel]]
The [[Princeton University Chapel]] is located on the north side of campus near Nassau Street. It was built between 1924 and 1928 at a cost of $2.3 million,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/text_univchapel.html |first=Sara |last=Bush |title=The University Chapel |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=June 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314021940/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/text_univchapel.html |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> approximately ${{inflation|US|2.3|1928|r=1}} million adjusted for inflation in 2020. Ralph Adams Cram, the university's supervising architect, designed the chapel, which he viewed as the crown jewel for the Collegiate Gothic motif he had championed for the campus.<ref name = milliner-pip /> At the time of its construction, it was the second largest university chapel in the world, after [[King's College Chapel, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=June 11, 1928|title=Religion: Princeton's Chapel|url=https://time.com/vault/issue/1928-06-11/page/32/|magazine=[[Time Magazine|Time]]|volume=XI|issue=24|page=30|issn=0040-781X|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706043418/https://time.com/vault/issue/1928-06-11/page/32/|archive-date=July 6, 2021|access-date=July 6, 2021}}</ref> It underwent a two-year, $10 million restoration campaign between 2000 and 2002.<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenwood|first=Kathryn Federici|date=March 13, 2002|title=Features: Chapel gets facelift and a new dean|magazine=[[Princeton Alumni Weekly]]|url=https://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW01-02/11-0313/features1.html|url-status=dead|access-date=March 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215635/http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW01-02/11-0313/features1.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> The Chapel seats around 2,000 and serves as a site for religious services and local celebrations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chapel|url=https://m.princeton.edu/default/map/detail?feed=campus_map&parentId=campus_map%2FBuilding&filter=Chapel&id=_0051|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628180422/https://m.princeton.edu/default/map/detail?feed=campus_map&parentId=campus_map%2FBuilding&filter=Chapel&id=_0051|archive-date=June 28, 2021|access-date=June 19, 2021|website=Princeton Mobile|publisher=Princeton University|language=en}}</ref>

Measured on the exterior, the chapel is {{convert|277|ft|m|0}} long, {{convert|76|ft|m|0}} wide at its [[transepts]], and {{convert|121|ft|m|0}} high.<ref name="Stillwell-1971">{{cite book|last=Stillwell|first=Richard|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvxcrz68.7|title=The Chapel of Princeton University|chapter=The Present Chapel and ITS Predecessors|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|year=1971|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=7–11|doi=10.2307/j.ctvxcrz68.7|jstor=j.ctvxcrz68.7|isbn=9780691195209|s2cid=240950675|oclc=472188116}}</ref> The exterior is [[Pennsylvania]] [[sandstone]], trimmed with [[Indiana]] [[limestone]], and the interior is made of limestone and [[Aquia Creek sandstone]].<ref name="Stillwell-1971" /> The design evokes characteristics of an [[Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England|English church of the Middle Ages]].<ref name="Stillwell-1971" /> The extensive iconography, in stained glass, stonework, and wood carvings, has the common theme of connecting religion and scholarship.<ref name="milliner-pip">{{Cite journal|last=Milliner|first=Matthew J.|date=Spring 2009|title=''Primus inter pares'': Albert C. Friend and the Argument of the Princeton University Chapel|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.70.3.0471|journal=The Princeton University Library Chronicle|volume=70|issue=3|pages=471–517|doi=10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.70.3.0471|jstor=10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.70.3.0471|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813054834/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.70.3.0471|url-status=live}}</ref>