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Request a brochure to learn more about the New Holland Difference.BY THE NUMBERS St. Bartholomew’s chapel, Rincon Indian Reservation Old chapel, built in 1938, destroyed by fire in 2007: Size: about 900 square feet Amenities: two small classrooms New chapel, to be consecrated Feb. 14: Size: 3,356 square feet Amenities: a courtyard, a 2,385-square-foot fellowship hall with seating for 120, and a full kitchen. More than two years after a raging firestorm destroyed its Roman Catholic chapel, the Rincon Indian band has rebuilt it, creating a new home for a congregation that dates to the 19th century. The new St. Bartholomew’s chapel is bigger and more comfortable. It draws on native traditions and is more energy-efficient. Workers are putting the finishing touches on the chapel this month — installing an altar made from the trunk of an oak tree harvested from Indian land in the nearby hills; planting drought-resistant flowers, shrubs and succulents in the garden;

and completing the restoration from disaster zone to place of worship and community center. When the work is done, in time for consecration by San Diego Bishop Robert Brom on Feb. 14, the reservation’s Catholic congregation will reclaim its home after two years worshipping in a tribal hall.used folding chairs for sale in atlanta The church building was destroyed when flames swept down from the neighboring La Jolla Indian Reservation on Oct. 23, 2007, and burned 84 percent of the Rincon reservation’s acreage, destroying 65 buildings.frozen table and chair set amazon The flames consumed the roof of the 1930s chapel, and burning embers dropped into the sanctuary.best massage chair in singapore

Only a free-standing bell tower nearby survived unscathed. “It was devastating,” said Edward “Juan” Reed, a tribal elder who grew up in the church. “A great amount of history just burned up there.”tub chair covers canada He estimates that 80 percent of the tribe’s members are Roman Catholic.fabric dining chairs sydney “This was our church, the community’s church,” so there was no question about reconstruction, tribal Chairman Bo Mazzetti said last week.cube chair bed ikea In the days after the fire, Mazzetti thought members of the tribe could learn the construction methods used by their ancestors and rebuild the church as it had been. A church committee that had finished a $250,000 chapel renovation a few months before the fire met with Kevin deFreitas, a San Diego architect who approached tribal leaders after reading a newspaper account of the destruction and began planning.

The 900-square-foot chapel had been designed by a local priest and built out of concrete by local Indians more than 70 years ago to replace a turn-of-the-century wooden church building that had fallen into disrepair. It could hold about 60 people. Although not as old as some other nearby adobes, the building was historic, said Bob Lerner, a historian with the Valley Center History Museum. “It was small, but it evoked everything romantic about Old California,” he said. “There was something very special.” That building was one in a long line of meeting places where the Rincon Indians had worshipped since the early 1800s, said historian Rick Kennedy of Point Loma Nazarene University. The Indians used church liturgies as well as traditional ceremonies to mark important events, said Kennedy, citing writings from the 1820s. “They blended Christianity with some of the Native American practices,” he said. That same community, led by laypeople and now ministered to by visiting priests from Pala, is still there, Kennedy said.

After the chapel burned down, worship continued at the tribal hall, where Reed and other volunteers would set up folding chairs. In the meantime, the church committee members and the architect began talking about how the church would be used. They realized that one of the traditions at the center of tribal life — holding funerals — was nearly impossible in the old church. The worship space had only one 3½-foot-wide aisle. The old building could hardly accommodate a modern casket. Over months of discussion, the design evolved. The aisle was widened. More seats were added. And the idea of trying to re-create what was lost — a Spanish-style building — was reconsidered. “That was appropriate when they built the Pala Mission (at the nearby Pala reservation in 1817),” said deFreitas, the architect. “It’s not necessarily appropriate now.” And so tribal members set out to find significant ways to include themes both from their traditions and their faith into the design and use of the new building.

The end result is a modern building that touches on the ancient. For instance, the side walls are made from rammed earth — a mix of local soil and cement hardened under pressure without water. The church building, quite literally, arose out of the earth that the people of Rincon have called home for thousands of years. Also, some important traditional gatherings take place inside a half-circle made from sticks and willow branches. The building takes that into account, with the front and rear walls of the 140-seat sanctuary making up part of the circle, and wood inlays on the wall behind the altar representing the willow branches. The inlay also represents Jesus’ crown of thorns, said deFreitas, who as a Catholic considers this, his first church building, a labor of love. The project includes a meeting hall that will be open to other community groups. For the tribal government, deciding to pay for the $3.2 million project with money it collected from the Harrah’s Rincon Casino was natural, said Mazzetti, the chairman.