Voorhees Chapel is one of two chapels on the campus of

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. Built in 1925 with a donation from Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees, wife of Rutgers trustee Ralph Voorhees, the chapel once served the community of

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. Douglass, founded the New Jersey College for Women (founded in 1918), was the women's residential college at Rutgers. The chapel is an example of

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in the tradition of English architect

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. The chapel houses a large mechanical-action pipe organ built by the

Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt Karl Ludwig Alexander Schuke (6 November 1906 – 7 May 1987) was a German organ builder. The son of the organ builder Alexander Schuke, he continued, together with his brother Hans-Joachim Schuke, to run their father's company in Potsdam until ...

. The instrument has 3-manuals & pedals, 41 independent registers, 41 speaking stops, and 65 ranks.

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Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts — Voorhees Chapel

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