Brigham City Third Ward Chapel: Safe Detail

This safe was located in one of the classrooms in the basement of the building. I imagine that it was once used to house ward or stake records and other materials. It was locked when I visited.

Brigham City Third Ward Chapel: Pew Detail

Brigham City Third Ward Chapel: Prayer Room

The "Prayer Room" is located directly behind the pulpit of the main chapel. It is accessed by doors on either sides. Curved staircases lead up to the room.

 It appears the room is currently used as a classroom for Primary. The stained glass windows on the west side have been replaced with plain frosted glass, but the ones on the east remain. I can only assume that this room was originally used to perform special prayer circles that are normally reserved for the temple.

Brigham City Third Ward: Window Detail

Brigham City Third Ward: First Vision Stained Glass

 The most striking feature in the chapel is the detailed stained glass portrayal of the First Vision.

The window was featured on the cover of the February 2012 Ensign. The window was made in 1911-1912 by the Bennett Paint and Glass Company in Salt Lake City. Apparently, they transported the window from Salt Lake City to Brigham City in a truck that had no windshield--during the winter. One of the men later recalled that the journey nearly froze the glassmen.

Parts of the window came from the eastern U.S./Europe. Joyce Athay Janetski's thesis, "A History, Analysis, and Registry of Mormon Architectural Art Glass," notes:

"In a conversation with (Senator) Wallace F. Bennet, President of Bennett Paint and Glass, he said that Bennetts never had a kiln and so did not pain on glass. Any painted faces, hands, etc. incorporated into windows that Bennetts' art glass department executed were imported from either glass companies in the eastern United States or from those in Europe. Therefore the pained portion of the Brigham City 3rd Ward window (the Vision scene) must have been special-ordered by Bennetts for the window" (pg. 187).

Brigham City Third Ward Chapel: Interior

While there are differences--most notably, immediate access to the basement containing classrooms on either sides of the pulpit--this chapel is very similar to the Malad Second Ward (posts on that building coming soon).

Brigham City Third Ward Chapel

 Built in 1912, the Brigham City Third Ward stands at 200 N and 200 W in Brigham City. It's building and chapel plans are similar to the Malad City Second Ward Chapel. It recently celebrated its centennial and houses two wards.