FEU Chapel (Our Lady of Fatima Chapel) (Manila)

 chapel, Roman Catholic church

The FEU Chapel (other names: Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Student Council Association (SCA) Chapel) is masterpiece-filled structure within the campus. It is where religious activities of faculty, personnel, and students are held.

The chapel is designed by Arch. Felipe Mendoza in 1955 in the International Style, which was characterized by an emphasis on volume over mass, the use of lightweight, mass-produced, industrial materials, rejection of all ornament and color, repetitive modular forms. It was then inaugurated on December 8, 1957.

Its interior features a mural by National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco. His painting of the 14 Stations of the Cross encompasses 260 degrees of one’s visual range. He also made the Crucified Christ in the center of the altar. Another art piece is National Artist for Sculpture Napoleon Abueva's La Pieta, which he donated in 1999. Meanwhile, the chapel’s façade is the richly colored tile mosaic of Our Lady of Fatima by Vicente Manansala, also a National Artist who developed the transparent cubism technique apparent in this piece of art.