Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, Chapel, Crookston, Minnesota

Serious settling in a Monastic facility of a Benedictine community, built in 1926 on the banks of the Red Lake River, led to temporary bracing to allow time to study the alternatives of replacement and restoration.  Careful planning and descerning led to replacement of the non residential functions, including the chapel, administrative, social and infirmary facilities for this Benedictine order. The chapel, seating about 200, serves as the worship center of the community, both functionally and literally, for both eucharistic liturgies and the liturgy of the hours. It also serves as a devotional center for the attached nursing facility housing elderly members of the religious community.  The facility was designed using many elements of the original structure including columns, stonework and an Italian floor mosaic.