Overview
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about our new addition.The Divinity School’s 53,000-square-foot addition represents a $22 million investment in the school’s future and the formation of church leadership. The building includes three levels and links seamlessly in function and design with the older Langford and Gray buildings.
The recently named Westbrook building and Goodson Chapel were completed in March, 2005. A formal dedication was held October 11, 2005 in conjunction with the annual Convocation & Pastors' School.
Forming a learned clergy requires time and space for people to interact with one another. This includes time in residence for faculty and students in and out of the classroom, and well-planned space for those interactions to occur. Further, in order to form a learned clergy, we also need an ecology of space that can itself draw people together to reflect, to engage in conversation, to pray and worship together, and to eat together.
 Goodson Chapel |
 Lecture Hall |
 Outdoor Terrace |
We believe this additional space makes a profound difference in enabling people to be present to one another for the sake of worship, learning and conversation. It also offers significant opportunities for enhancing technologies in the service of our education.
The addition includes:
- Goodson Chapel, a 315-seat worship space with 55-foot-high ceilings and an organ balcony
- Expanded and improved offices for the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
- Dining facilities seating 200 and including kitchens as well as additional terrace seating
- Admissions and Student Services office suites
- A state-of-the-art, tiered lecture hall able to accommodate 177 people
- Two large classrooms: one with capacity for 150 people, the other with room for 107
- Two medium-sized classrooms, each accommodating 50 people
- Three seminar rooms, each with a capacity of 20 to 30 people
- A preaching and worship lab
- Offices for the school chaplain
- A Prayer Room and Sacristy
- The J. Foster Barnes Duke Chapel Music office suite,
- A new bookstore
- A dramatic cloister walk facing the Duke Chapel quadrangle
- An outdoor terrace providing space for learning, meals and fellowship
- Two lobby areas