All Saints Episcopal Church - Sharon Chapel
3421 Franconia Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22310 703-960-4808 SharonChpl@aol.com
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Next, we walk down the aisle on the Gospel side to the pulpit. To the left of the pulpit, hidden behind the Jesse Tree in this image, is a door named for Phillips Brooks, former Bishop of Massachusetts who served at Sharon Chapel while a student at Virginia Theological Seminary.
As the story goes, Brooks felt that he preached his first sermon at Sharon so badly that he opened the window located behind the pulpit in the first chapel, climbed out, and ran all the way back to the seminary. A "Phillips Brooks Door" has been included in every incarnation of the sanctuary since.