Hospital Chapel In Youngstown

Large Altar with Tabernacle in Existing Chapel

When St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown made plans to modify their Chapel space to better serve their staff, their patients, and any visitors to the hospital, they realized that changes were necessary.  The Altar in their current chapel was far too large to use in the newly renovated space and for the tabernacle, but they wanted to use as much of the marble as they could in designing new appointments and wanted to continue to use their tabernacle in the new space in an effort to keep some symmetry in the Chapel.

The hospital contacted Henningers's to design new liturgical appointments that could utilize the marble that would be available from the no-longer-being-used existing Altar.  Henninger's designed appointments with marble tops with wood to complement the beauty of the Bottacino marble.  Henninger's also used the symbol from the tabernacle as a motif to continue on the front of the appointments.

Henninger's Conceptual Design

The hospital approved the design and requested that the wood that would be used in the furniture would be mahogany, which had been used elsewhere in the hospital.  With the timeline of when the furniture was needed in the larger scope of the project, Henninger's went to work on the furniture, using the bronze symbols and the raw mahogany to begin to build the furniture.

Once the furniture was assembled, the wood was stained in a natural finish, the marble tops - cut from the original Altar by Henninger's - were attached, and the symbols were attached to the front of the pieces and the furniture was readied for delivery.

When the space was ready for the new furniture to be installed, Henninger's delivered and installed the furniture into the newly renovated chapel to be enjoyed by staff, patients, and all those visiting the hospital in need of a place of quiet prayer.