The Chapel

The Chapel Building

Designed by Mr John Watts and completed in 1984, the Chapel seats 350.

Newington College is a school of the Uniting Church in Australia and embraces people of many religious traditions. A menorah, or seven-branched candelabrum, stands on a side table in the sanctuary, providing a visible link with Judaism.

On the rear wall of the nave is a carved totem, a barramundi fish from central Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, identifying Aboriginal spirituality. The fish is also a traditional Christian symbol from the time of the early Church.

On the same wall are two Greek Orthodox icons depicting Christ the Teacher, prints taken from original paintings by Theophane of Crete in AD 1546.

Around the walls a brass frieze shows the names of a selection of great men and women of history and of the present day. The concept is an adaptation of Hebrews 12: 1-2 in the New Testament, which refers to Christians being surrounded by a "host of witnesses", from whose example and service they may draw inspiration.

The names represent people of different religions, some of no religion, who in their various ways, and often without realising or conceding the fact, have used their talents to serve God and mankind

John Rembrandt Knox Shakespeare More Gandhi Wesley Mozart Olivier Einstein Homer Kant Mendel Socrates Newton Chisholm Michelangelo Britten Buddha Alexander Paul Columbus Plato Chaucer Descartes Bach Ignatius Bonhoeffer Curie Peter Luther Confucius Galileo Augustine Dante Pasteur Moses Benedict Leonardo Lincoln Isaiah Barth Aquinas Darwin Aristotle Goethe Francis Schweitzer Ptolemy Beethoven Mohammed Teresa.

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