Foothills Wedding Chapel - Golden, Colorado
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Foothills Chapel, formerly a Lutheran Church, was built in 1947 by a Navy shipbuilder who made it look like Noah's ark upside down from the inside.
Waymark Code: WM93CB
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2010
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Foothills Chapel was first started up in a prisoner of war camp near Leadville, Colorado. The German soldiers being housed at Camp Hale were mostly Lutheran, and one of the American captains asked the German POWs if they would be interested in helping make stained glass and lantern-like lights for a new Lutheran Church for the glory of God to be built in Golden after the war. Several of the POWS joined in with the American captain, making this one of the few cooperative ventures between Germans and Americans during World War II. When the war ended, the rest of the church was completed in 1947. A Navy shipbuilder actually created the beams using old shipbuilding techniques, warping them in water just the right amount to give them a perfect curve in the final architecture. The entire top of the church was built to look like the hull of Noah's ark turned upside down!
Established in 1996 as a wedding chapel by Revs Chris and Karen Mohr they offer "Complete wedding packages, one on one service so you can have the wedding of your dreams, affordable yet beautiful, inspiring chapel holds 200, banquet room available (our caterer/bartender or your own food/drinks), foothills location but Denver weather, 15 minutes from downtown Denver, traditional building, caring nondenominational ministers!"
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