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Show SINCULAR PLACE OF WORSHIP. A lloatan Church Which Will Utruufljr Keieu'hle an Opera Home. Boston. April 21. Boston is to haver a J.T.'iO.OOii church in the Bay Kay district, dis-trict, nud if the present plans are carried car-ried out it will be thu queerest place of worship in tho country, h is to b called the Copley Square church. Tho auditorium will bo eighty ted gquaie and the height from tho lowest portion of the inclined Moor to the ceiling will be liny-tour teet, and to the dome sixty feet. There will be two galleries of tho horseshoe shape. In the lirst balcony there will hu two t rows of boxes the plans say "pews each fur' lushed to accommodate from four to six persons. The oilier parts of the house wiil be titled with piuii covered folding chairs. The' seating capaiily wiil 1)0 M,t)2'. The proscenium are'n wiil be noble in its dimensions, giing an opening at the stage, entrance of forty live leet. Within it w iil be twelve luge's, or "pews," as large as ilje parlors par-lors of tho average apartment house. The stage, or "platform, ' is to be so Itet wide and ."ill feet deep from tho auditorium wall to the rear wail. A "parson's study" possibly the green room 22 by lib feet, wiil be located tinder tin-der the stii'fo and cponingfroin this will be six largo dressing rooms, for principals. princi-pals. It is stated that the auditorium mid its appurtenance. have already been leased for a term of ten years to one of th" most successful Impresarios . in America, and that if it should be decided de-cided to use it for amusement purposes it will become the home of grand opera. |