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Home > Building > Architecture > Portal
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At the portal, or main entrance, seven stone statues surround the
oak doors. Above is John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. To the
left are three great Christian reformers: Girolamo Savonarola, a
Dominican friar; Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation;
and John Wycliffe, thought to be the first to translate the Bible
from Latin into English. To the right are three “great men
of the American South”: Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, and
Sydney Lanier, a Southern poet who was popular at the time the Chapel
was built.
Above the portal are three more stone figures, meant to portray
leaders of American Methodism in Wesley’s day: Thomas Coke,
a Methodist bishop and missionary; Francis Asbury, general superintendent
of Methodism in the Colonies; and George Whitefield, an evangelist
and missionary. However, in a case of mistaken identify, the image
on the left is not the 18th-century clergyman Thomas Coke, but
the 17th-century English Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke.
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