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History
Established in 1949.
Marsh Chapel is the university chapel at Boston University, which was originally founded in 1839 as Newbury Biblical Institute, the first school for the training of Methodist clergy in the United States. One of the original buildings of the Charles River Campus at BU, the chapel was designed as an interdenominational space hospitable to Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. The building was designed by the Cram and Ferguson architecture firm, and the stained glass was designed by Charles J. Connick studio. From 1953 – 1965, the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman served as Dean of Marsh Chapel, the first African-American to hold a deanship at a non-majority black school in the U.S.
