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Seattle Police are investigating as another area house of worship has been damaged in a vandalism attack. Seattle University says furniture inside the prominent Chapel of St. Ignatius was damaged and “elements of the Chapel’s religious inscriptions” were “defaced in the process” in the Sunday afternoon vandalism.
“The Chapel of St. Ignatius is a uniquely treasured and sacred space on our campus,” the university’s president Eduardo M. Peñalver and officials wrote in a message to the 12th Ave school’s campus about the damage. “Although we do not know the motives of the person who engaged in this destructive act, our experience of it brings us into solidarity with other communities who have experienced this kind of desecration and disregard.”
Peñalver and officials also expressed “sorrow and support” for the people who found the damage “who were shaken by what they observed.”
Sunday’s vandalism follows a graffiti attack in April on the campus of the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue only a few blocks from the Seattle U campus. SPD posted video of the suspects in that Holocaust Remembrance Day vandalism spree but have announced no arrests.
Dating to 1997, the Chapel of St. Ignatius has been praised for its modernist design and is considered by some to be the Capitol Hill area’s highest architectural achievement. Popular with Seattle U students and visitors stopping through to visit the chapel, the school said the building would remain locked in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s damage.
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