Let your light so shine!

Installation of new lights in Luther Memorial's nave: a photo progress report

Before: August 29, 2004
September 5, 2004
September 10, 2004

September 21, 2004
October 10, 2004

Work began August 30 on replacement of the lamp fixtures in the nave. From September 5 through October 3, worship services were held in the Great Room, and the Adult Forum met in the Multipurpose Room of the Lutheran Campus Center next door. The project, includes eight new 36-inch-high, 16-inch-wide lanterns centered on the stained glass windows above the pews; lighting on the side aisles, and additional lighting at side walls of the choir balcony. Fixtures at the north walls of the east and west transepts will be replaced and lowered. Kubala Washatko Architects, LMH Lighting, Vogel Brothers, Custom Metal, and Forward Electric presented the plans.
Before: August 29, 2004
	The Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) has said the church can no longer use the catwalk above the nave to replace bulbs in the six old "gym lights," some of which have burned out. The project will cost $225,000. Most of the money has been raised, but donations are still being sought.
	The church is selling T shirts and polo shirts with the "Let Your Light So Shine" words, picture of a new light fixture, and the church name embroidered on the chest. Polo shirts, $23, and T shirts, $12, are available before and after Sunday services or at the church office.

Sunday, September 5, 2004
After services in the Great Room, parishoners take a peek at the progress made in the first week of work.

	It's hard to see beyond the glare of the "gym lights," but almost all of the catwalk that blocked the view of the ceiling peak is gone. The pews have been moved aside to make room to work, and pieces of the catwalk are piled on the plywood-covered floor.

	Both the large Austin organ (left) and the Steere organ in the east transept (right) are covered with plastic to protect them from construction dust.

Friday, September 10, 2004

The lift used by the workers fit in through the front doors of the church. When in use, legs swing out to the sides and the spine raises and telescopes to lift a worker to the 81-foot-high peak of the ceiling. The "gym lights" are gone.

One of the new fixtures, not quite complete, stands in front of the nave lighting project display in the narthex.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

The lift is extended to carry a worker up to connect one of the light fixtures.

One of the new fixtures is lighted.

After: Sunday, October 10, 2004
Worship returns to the Nave with the new lights. The lights, turned to about 80 percent of full brightness, provide more light for reading bulletins and hymnals. The lights also shed more light on the ceiling, which is no longer obscured by the catwalk.


Some fine tuning is yet to be finished, including reducing the glare (seen in the upper right of the picture at right) from the lights pointing to the choir loft.

1021 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53715, Phone (608)258-3160

Let your light so shine!

Before: August 29, 2004

Sunday, September 5, 2004

Friday, September 10, 2004

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

After: Sunday, October 10, 2004