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After serving as a quiet sanctuary for reflection, prayer and life's most profound moments, the Inter-Faith Chapel at Valley View Hospital will be deconsecrated this August. Located for 13 years beside Valley View’s ER and Urgent Care, the chapel is making way for expanded space to support advanced cardiac surgical care. A newly designed chapel is planned for construction in late 2025, continuing the hospital’s commitment to spiritual care.

Spiritual Care Coordinator and Chaplain Lauren Martin warmly invites the community to a Service of Deconsecration on Wednesday, August 13 at 10 a.m., held in the current chapel space. The ceremony offers a meaningful opportunity to honor a place that has quietly supported patients, families, staff and chaplains through life’s most impactful moments.

The Inter-Faith Chapel was first dedicated on September 6, 2012, with Chaplain Patty Harris leading a group of hospital representatives and medical staff. That day, Rabbis Mendel Mintz and David Segal of Aspen blessed the chapel by hanging a mezuzah in the doorway. Clergy from area churches joined to offer blessings, prayers and reflections on the relationship between medicine and faith.

As the chapel prepares to transition, Chaplain Martin especially encourages attendance from those who helped form this space 13 years ago—hospital staff, clergy, stained-glass artists and community members who have contributed to the chapel’s rich spiritual legacy.

“This space has silently witnessed all of life’s most sacred transitions including conversations of life, death and everything in between, weddings, memorial services, baptisms, doctors notifying families of death of a loved one and so much more,” says Chaplain Martin.