Glorious wood

As a Catholic university, the Ateneo de Manila has several chapels aside from the Church of the Gesù which I've featured during the day and at night. One of my favorite chapels is the Immaculate Conception Chapel in the Loyola Schools. It was redesigned extensively in 2000 by architect Vincent Pinpin and looks very different from when we used to attend Sunday mass there when I was a kid. I love the simplicity of the chapel now, with all its beautiful wood, big windows at the sides to let in lots of sunlight, and the few panes of colored glass up front behind the altar. The crucifix rotates and on the other side is the resurrected Christ, used during the Easter season. The small statue of Mary is a replica of a bigger one which is probably as old as the university. The original statue used to stand in the grand staircase of the Intramuros campus in the late 1800s. It either survived the 1930s fire and transfered to the entrance of the Padre Faura campus, or there was a second statue exactly like the first one. I don't know if I can ever find out for sure, but I do know that the Padre Faura statue was mostly destroyed during WWII. However, the upper portion was salvaged and when the university moved to Loyola Heights in Quezon City in the 1950s, the statue was restored by an alumni class that studied in the Padre Faura campus. That restored statue is now kept in the university archives.