University of St. Thomas Campus Walk , Chapel of St. Basil - Houston, Texas 4K

The University of St. Thomas (UST) is Houston's Catholic University, committed to the religious, ethical and intellectual traditions of Catholic higher education. The campus is located in Houston's Museum District and Innovation Corridor, a diverse and vibrant urban environment with professional opportunities.

Home to the famous Chapel of St. Basil. This chapel was designed by the late architect Philip Johnson and completed in 1997. In keeping with the University’s Basilian tradition, the chapel is named for St. Basil the Great, a fourth century bishop in what today is the country of Turkey. The chapel sits at the north end of the University’s academic mall, which was also designed by Johnson some 40 years earlier.

The Chapel hosts Mass every day. It seats about 225 people and is lit from the inside by natural light from the dome, a skylight over the altar and the statue of Our Lady on the east wall and from the asymmetrical glass cross on the west wall.

The external design consists of three basic geometric shapes: a 50 foot white stucco cube for the body of the church, a sphere for the dome and a black granite plane that intersects the dome and the cube.

The Chapel of St. Basil and Doherty Library face each other from opposite ends of the Academic Mall to signify the perpetual relationship between faith and reason.
-www.stthom.edu

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