🟡 Sage Chapel

Sage Chapel is a nondenominational chapel that has hosted famous speakers ranging from Martin Luther King Jr. to Jane Goodall. The chapel is open daily for quiet reflection. It is also home to the Glee Club and Chorus, two of the oldest student organizations at Cornell.

A few of the Chapel’s more prominent features are “The Realm of Learning” mosaic, Ezra Cornell’s sarcophagus, a Tiffany stained-glass window, a historic Aeolian-Skinner organ (1940) and a stained-glass window commemorating the lives of three civil rights workers, one of whom is a Cornell alumnus.

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Sage Chapel as seen from overhead on a spring day, with trees displaying pink blossoms.
Volunteers in Sage Chapel ladle soup out from a metal container to a man holding out a bowl.
Choir singers perform in Sage Chapel, with multiple stained-glass windows behind them.
A moderator, left, holds a discussion in Sage Chapel with a guest speaker, right. Between them is a small table with a vase of roses, and behind them is a religious fresco.
The Aeolian-Skinner organ in Sage Chapel, with a stained glass window in the background.
Based on the English parish church, Sage Chapel features asymmetrical massing and entrances and a high, hammer-beam roof.
Sage Chapel seen during springtime, with flowering trees in the foreground.
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