Show 4 A MODERN CHURCH it hill sont 2 d PC people pie an and cost cent at ab louir 1 dollard dollar cop right 1 bw by A american nic prem i lion I 1 modern church architecture partakes I 1 t a nic measure asure of the kirit of other inc incident idelt architecture there is less of conservatism thare its is less rc respect hect for or older illeth method XII there then Is a 1 general desire to improti e t ali I 1 I 1 definite requirements of tile tho problems wit t I 1 out ont reference to what jim him bren been done Is in fore the mart in this direction was low ilow i it was like till other movements movement front from tl tl old things thero was wai a good deal OA of P re atme at atone time there anis opposition to lt ali 1 heating eating of church rooms room aven ive instrumental was thought t be something which should not lie be tole abed the change lit in church floor plans binally met with a 11 good dealoe cippo sitio res I 1 i A Q f FRONT ELEVATION people lid did not like to worship in a room which was different from the old room when the pews gave way to opera chai chains ra and the old cathedral plan to one better adapted to the requirements of hearing and seeing there were those who said that lie ho church idea was being debased it was said that tho planning of churches church eq which give giva all the qualities of the ins insirilo ade of a alt was altogether out of chwa the way in truth as wo we all know a theater ir is a commercial venture it is arranged so that the largest number of people can hear bear and see sec all that goes on in front of them the theater building is arranged so as to contain the largest possible number of people in comfort if they cannot see and b hear e ar well the theater is a failure people will lit not go to it or they buy only good seats a and dd leave tho the others vacant people who ho are interested in theaters have worked out plans which meet all of the objection caused by bad ad or uncomfortable seats on a commercial basis what better la is there for the people who build churches than to profit bythe by the work vork and experimenting lit in accommodating large numbers of pepi people at a moderate cost there is no occasion for new experiments in the these so lines hero here I 1 is a plan of a church chur cli tho the idea of which is taken from tho the parquet of a theater alie stage is leftoff left off of course because there is no need for it but in tle part where tho stage would be there is a ermall space arranged for pulpit and choir und and back of them and to one side is the organ the seating part of the room only has any resemblance to the theater plan certainly its general appearance is differ tnt ent the wall decorations tho the form of the room its vestibules vesti bules give it a character of its own generally church buildings are square on the outside because they have been made so before this is true even if the circular plan of seating js Is adopted on tb lb inside A rational development of a church plan suggests that tho the exterior conform measurably to the iD terii il in the plan given we have this we have a circular plan on the inside and truth fully and naturally wo we show tile the same plan on the outside than which nothing can be more satisfactory certain vestibules vesti bules are ne needed ded they are PI placed aced where chero they serve their purpose best it is not a jueau on as to liow vestibule 1 havo have been built before but rather as a s 0 10 o C as 0 rm rem aa 14 ax az 13 X ia t COs p PLAN how vestibules vesti bules should bo be built to best berio their purposes tor for this particular plan thus it is that we have two which enter ter the main only and wo we larv L arv one other which goes to the sunday brinl room as well as is to the main room agthe As the church is planned it is only thirty feet iu rn diameter and with seats arranged around tho the wall will accommodate about peo pie tho the sunday school room raiq about three fourths of the people in i n the sunday school root room can see MC M C the pulpit v when hen tho the screen t n n t them beat is lifted a so that altogether this building accod a congregation of about there is a great agrest deal of misinformation on the seating capdau caldr ity ty of churches in every community there are largo large buildings which are supposed to seat five six or seven hundred people this statement is generally made without knO knowing jIlg their actual capacity A count will nill genera generally it show that they at aie 0 overrated from 20 to 40 per cent in n case cae only people are in the chinch it is certainly better to fill the room than it would bo be to have a hundred or more vacant seats beats it is much more satisfactory to preach to a full house even when the capacity is limited than to a certain number of empty seats in a apian plan of this kind tile the sunday school room can be used iu in connection with the largo large room and furnish quite as good accommodation tor for the participants in the services as world would the extra space anti and capacity in the bilm main room A plan of this kitta kind is quite elastic and a few feet additional width and length would add materially to the slating seating ca cap parity icily certainly more than would b W represented by the actual surface feet added to the structure tho the cost 0 of this th i s building will bo be between aw and bow if ft constructed 1 substantially I ly of wood louis 11 GIDSON |