The design of the project was based on the following guiding principles:
- Sacredness: Enhance the qualities that make the Sanctuary a sacred space preserving a sense of sanctuary, increasing the sense of beauty, and allowing for a range of prayer from private devotion to community worship.
- Flexibility: Make the room, and in particular the furniture, more flexible to enable greater creativity for contemporary liturgy, and a variety of community uses.
- Music: Ensure that this is a good place for music and continue to improve acoustics for both congregational singing and performance. Provide suitable and adaptable space for musicians and choir.
- Technology: Maintain and further develop the technical capacity including livestream, projection, lighting, and sound amplification, while ensuring that technology is not intrusive.
- Accessibility: Make the whole room accessible for all.
- Inclusivity: Enhance the capacity for children, youth, and young families.
This will result in the following changes:
- Replace flooring with new carpet tile and vinyl tiles
- Update lighting
- Paint the sanctuary and narthexes
- Reduce platform to one level to increase accessibility
- Update both narthexes so they are more welcoming and contemporary
- Add a window into the small narthex
- Include elements of nature with tree
- Include tapestry boxes as a visual accent and to ease transition of hangings with hidden pulls
3-D walk through of the renovations:
