A Home for the Windows

The Main Post Interfaith Chapel is a fine example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, with the same baroque features that embellish California’s early mission churches. Visitors frequently comment on the “sweetness” of the Chapel and its surroundings. The Main Post Interfaith Chapel is a jewel in the crown of the Presidio of San Francisco, and the McDonald Windows will enhance the experience of the thousands who visit each year.

From the start of the McDonald Windows project, Frederick McDonald envisioned the new windows as having their permanent home in a military chapel. The Main Post Interfaith Chapel in the Presidio of San Francisco is particularly well-suited to this role, as it is not only a former military chapel built by the U.S. Sixth Army in 1931, but an interfaith sanctuary that seeks to promote understanding and cooperation between peoples and faiths.

The Chapel’s new McDonald Wing will add stature and interest to an already beautiful sacred space welcoming people from all spiritual and religious traditions.