The San Diego Veterans Museum
Wartime Naval Hospital chapel, its pulpit once rotated among three faiths, now honoring veterans.
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This guide to the San Diego Veterans Museum traces the small wartime chapel built for the sailors of the old Naval Hospital next door, where a rotating pulpit turned to show a different faith at each service and chaplains married sweethearts and baptized newborns in the same small room. You'll hear how the chapel emptied when the hospital moved on and faced demolition by the nineteen eighties, and who in the community refused to let that happen. Look up at the original nineteen forty-five stained glass windows made by Fred Wyland, each naming a different part of the old Naval Hospital community, before you turn to the seven murals painted later by Richard DeRosset.
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