
Down in the Chapel
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary
Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life at Pennsylvania''s maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford''s chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an a...
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary
Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life at Pennsylvania''s maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford''s chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an a...