Alumni Chapel
Alumni Chapel
Completed in 1950, Ellis A. Fuller led the alumni effort to raise the $500,000 needed to build this 1,400-seat structure to accommodate worship services for the seminary community. Fuller, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, wanted the chapel’s structure to be similar to that of his former charge. The seminary again enlisted Frederick Law Olmsted’s firm to supply architects who provided guidance in the design and construction process. Initially, plans called for Alumni Chapel to stand west of Norton Hall, but a benevolent layman purchased and provided the three-acre plot on which it now stands. The cornerstone of the chapel contains a copy of the Abstract of Principles as well as photographs of the signatures of all SBTS professors who had signed the Abstract at the time of the chapel’s construction.