Belmont Abbey College Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Campus == [[File:DJI 0068-May-2016-100.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Belmont Abbey College]] Maurus Hall is centrally located on campus and houses a student lounge, grill, and the Holy Grounds coffee shop. Across from Maurus Hall is the Haid, which serves as a student and community theater. The Haid was originally built as a gymnasium. The Abbey Players now perform there. <!----needs to be in activities--who have performed on campus since 1884.---> Along Abbey Lane, towards the far end of the campus, are the Vincent Abbot Taylor Library and the William Gaston Science Hall. Administrative offices are located in Robert Stowe Hall, with classrooms on the second and third floors. St. Leo's Hall, built in the [[American Benedictine style]], houses the Campus Book Store and Catholic Shop on the first floor. Professorial offices are located in St. Leo's Hall, and Grace Auditorium is located on the third floor. The [[Quadrangle (architecture)|quad]] is located between the Poellath and O'Connell residence halls, both constructed in the early 1960s. Raphael Arthur Hall, constructed in 1967, offers students individual rooms and sits on the hill above Poellath, near Campus Police. The St. Joseph's Eucharistic Adoration Chapel, dedicated in 2008, is across from Campus Police. Wheeler Athletic Center, completed in 1970, is located behind Poellath Hall. At the back of the campus are the four Cuthbert Allen Apartment buildings, built in 1989. The newly renovated Student Commons, located next to the new cafeteria, houses the campus mailroom, snack machines, a lounge area, and Student Life offices. Behind the Student Commons are the St. Scholastica and St. Benedict residence halls. The Lourdes Grotto, an official pilgrimage shrine, is situated behind O'Connell Hall. === Mary Help of Christians Abbey Basilica === {{Main|Belmont Abbey, North Carolina}} [[Image:BelmontAbbeyGrotto.JPG|thumb|right|The Lourdes Grotto]] The Abbey Church, the most prominent building on the college's campus, was completed in 1894 under the supervision of Abbot Leo Haid. Drexel made significant donations to the completion of the structure, which served as North Carolina's first and only [[cathedral]] prior to the erection of the [[Diocese of Raleigh]] in 1924. The church is constructed in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|gothic-revival style]] out of brick and granite, built in the shape of a [[Cruciform|Latin cross]]. The towers of the church, named Ora (the taller) and Labora (the smaller), can be seen from most of the college campus. The taller of the two towers holds bells which ring to signal the celebration of the [[Eucharist]] and the [[Liturgy of the Hours]]. The monastic community continues to hold daily services which are open to the student body and the public. Following the [[Second Vatican Council]], the interior of the Abbey Church was renovated in a [[mid-century modern|modernist]] style in order to facilitate the liturgical reforms of the era. In 1975, Belmont Abbey lost its territorial status and cathedral rank to the newly created [[Diocese of Charlotte]]. In 1998 [[Pope John Paul II]] named the Abbey Church a [[minor basilica]] in recognition of the historic and aesthetic significance of the structure.<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|diocese|db006|Territorial Abbey of Belmont-Mary Help of Christians|21 January 2015}}</ref> === Sacred Heart Extension === The Sisters of Mercy of Belmont reside at Sacred Heart Convent, in downtown Belmont. The convent is located on a campus made up of various organizations including Catherine's House, Holy Angels, and Mercy Heritage Center, archives for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. In 1892 the sisters began a finishing school for girls that eventually became a four-year degree institution, Sacred Heart College. Sacred Heart College closed in 1987, and a section of the Sacred Heart College is now rented by Belmont Abbey and called Sacred Heart Extension; classes are offered at Sacred Heart for both traditional and adult degree students. Belmont Abbey continues to offer [[Alumnus|alumnae]] services to graduates from Sacred Heart College.<ref name="lib.unc.edu"/> === St. Joseph Adoration Chapel === [[File:St. Joseph Adoration Chapel.jpg|thumb|St. Joseph Adoration Chapel]] The Saint Joseph Adoration Chapel was dedicated on November 7, 2008. It marked the first building project under President Bill Thierfelder. Dr. Thierfelder wanted all that came to the Belmont Abbey College campus, that the college finds its center in Jesus Christ. During the Fall and Spring semesters, the chapel is open 24 hours a day for prayers and the Blessed Sacrament is exposed from 6:00am to 9:00pm. === Expansion === Plans were proposed by the president of the college in 2008 to construct a new residence hall on campus in order to facilitate increased enrollment.<ref>http://crusader.bac.edu/english/crusader/print/OCT08.pdf {{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Article in the ''Crusader''</ref> In the Fall of 2012, construction began on two new residence halls to open in the Fall of 2013. In the Summer of 2021, construction began on a state-of-the-art integrated cafeteria. The construction was complete in time for the new cafeteria to open to the student body beginning in the Fall of 2024. The college opened two new residence halls the fall semester of 2023; construction delays forced the halls to be opened halfway through the semester. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://belmontabbeycollege.edu/2023/03/residence-hall-construction-update/ | title=Residence Hall Construction Update | date=March 24, 2023 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page