Gino Pazzaglini: Underground worship’s beginnings

Your Sept. 18 Focus piece “Man wants to build a chapel underground” about Mark Boone’s dream to build an underground chapel off Ebenezer Church Road was intriguing.

I did notice, however, that the comments of Boone and his Spanish architect, Xavier Vilata, overlooked mention of the catacombs (cemeteries) converted to active worship spaces in the 1st and 2nd centuries. Early Christians were practicing their “illegal” faith privately underground.

History might suggest that Boone’s underground chapel design might actually have threads of a rich tradition dating back over 2,000 years.

This story was originally published September 25, 2015 at 4:29 PM with the headline "Gino Pazzaglini: Underground worship’s beginnings."