The chapel was originally supposed to be built on the University of St. Thomas campus. I’m just stating a fact.
“Early in 1965, the two gave the artist 250,000 dollars in commissions for a series of large wall murals. These were intended for a chapel which the de Menils planned to build for St. Thomas Catholic University in Houston, where Dominique de Menil was the director of the Art Department.”
https://www.mark-rothko.org/rothko-chapel.jsp
The idea that the chapel might be used for some type of shadowy purpose was brought up by the poster above me and I was having fun with that. Obviously, I don’t believe Satanic rituals are held there. The religiosity or lack thereof of Rothko Chapel makes no difference to me. I’m not religious and don’t believe in supernatural phenomenon so I don’t have a skin in this game.
“I personally can respect and appreciate what I THINK it represents, but unfortunately I feel it's symbolism goes WAAY over the heads of what most of it's visitors could articulate, but I suppose some understand it on a visceral, subconscious, level. I may be wrong, as well. Art has a thousand meanings to a thousand people.”
Good for you.