Built by a San Francisco architect, Yosemite Valley Chapel is one of the national park's oldest buildings.
Yosemite Valley Chapel, formally known as Yosemite Community Church, was built in 1879 under the sponsorship of the California State Sunday School Association. Donations and membership fees paid for the steep-roofed building, which cost between $3,000 and $4,000 to build. Charles Geddes, a San Francisco architect, designed it.
Two decades later, Yosemite was changing around the chapel. A “busy community” of buildings around it near the base of the Four Mile Trail were taken down as activities shifted to other parts of the valley, leaving the chapel alone before it was moved in the early 1900s to its present site, about a mile west down busy Southside Drive.
The scene has hosted many weddings, baptisms and marriage vow renewals over the years, of which Moore has seen his fair share.
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