On the lower floor of the chapel is a classroom that can be used as chapel overflow, if needed. The pews here are not original, but were taken from the Beaver Ward chapel during a remodel.
At the front of the classroom is access to a small room that functions as the Relief Society Room. From here, a small staircase can be taken up to the chapel itself.
From the rostrum of the chapel, another small, narrow staircase takes you up to the prayer room on the top floor. This was only accessible by ladder until 1966. Tours mentioned that teachers would hold prayer meetings here prior to teaching their classes. Local leaders may have also held prayer circles in this room.
They have also added access from this room into the attic, so that visitors can see the curved beams that were used to build the ceiling of the chapel, in the manner of a ship's hull.
Thank you for this! I have seen lots of photos of the chapel but never of the other rooms. I love the shot showing the timbers as they curve; let's face it, that what this building is most famous for in many minds -- being built as an "upside down" ship.
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