Sacred Spaces at Williams
Jewish Religious Center
The Jewish Religious Center is located at 24 Stetson Court. If you have any questions, please contact the Chaplains’ Office at 413-597-2483. More »
Thompson Memorial Chapel
Thompson Memorial Chapel, built in 1905 to be the visible center of Williams’ spiritual life. More »
Nature's Sanctuary
Beyond the confines of bricks and mortar, Nature provides an ever-present sanctuary for the soul. More »
Newman Catholic Chapel
The Newman Catholic Community Room and Chapel provide a spiritual home for Catholics at Williams. More »
Muslim Prayer Room
For information, call the Chaplains’ Office at 413/597-2483 or e-mail [email protected] (The Muslim Prayer room is located on the lower level of Thompson Memorial Chapel.) More »
Haystack Monument
On a sultry Saturday afternoon in August, 1806, Mills and four other students gathered as usual in the maple grove of Sloan’s Meadow for one... More »
Mission Statement
The Chaplains’ Office seeks to serve the Williams College community
- by nurturing the vitality of communities of worship representing many of the world’s great religious and spiritual traditions
- by coordinating energetic and imaginative service to others beyond the campus through programs of community outreach and advocacy for social justice, and by encouraging mutually transformative interaction between students and their neighbors in Williamstown and the wider world
- by promoting courageous, candid and transformative dialogue among religious communities, and between theologies and other disciplines of intellectual life
- by supporting students and others in times of struggle, and by offering companionship in other spiritual questions and quests
- by encouraging growth in the spiritual and moral dimensions of human wholeness alongside the College’s attention to growth in the intellectual, physical, emotional and psychological dimensions of personhood
The college chaplains and office staff are eager to help students, faculty, staff and all members of the Williams community to discover every resource that may be helpful in furtherance of an individual’s spiritual journey and of the religious lives of the whole College.
