Teton Transfiguration

"A HUNDRED DOLLAR CHURCH WITH A THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR WINDOW"
Thus described by LIFE magazine in 1937, The Chapel of the Transfiguration is a small log chapel in Grand Teton National Park, in the community of Moose.

The Chapel of the Transfiguration boasts a near perfect blend of beauty, reverence and solitude. The chapel was sited and built to frame a view of the Cathedral Group of peaks in a large window behind the altar. With the rugged Teton Range as a backdrop, no stained glass windows are necessary behind the pulpit of this rustic log church. A clear glass altar window there solidly frames the tallest Teton Peaks. The chapel, which was built in 1925 from lodgepole pine. Its pews are made from local quaking aspen, the kind you can see out the window, and can seat up to 65 people, with overflow available outside.

For 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the chapel door is unlocked and open to the public that is if one can get to it in the winter months. It played a primary role in the movie "Spencer’s Mountain", which was filmed in Jackson Hole in 1963, and featured Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara.
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