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As you travel, pause and take a look at airport chapels

  • Written by Wendy Cadge, Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
imageOur Lady of the Airways Chapel, Logan Airport, Boston.Randall Armor, CC BY-NC-ND

Traveling in the new year? It is very likely there is a chapel or meditation room tucked away somewhere in one of the airports you’ll pass through. Sixteen of the country’s 20 largest airports have chapels, as do many more around the world.

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