[Navajo Nation] John G. Hunter, superintendent of the Leupp Agency, is generally given credit for the establishment of the Chapter system starting in 1922 in an effort to bolster Navajo self-determination and local governance. ...
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a special room or house where the governing body of a monastery or cathedral met. In Britain the chapter house is usually polygonal in shape with a slender central column supporting the roof.
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chamber or building, often reached through the cloister, in which the chapter, or heads of monastic bodies, assemble to transact business. Chapter ... [1 related articles]
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Place in a monastery where meetings were held to discuss all the organisational matters. Before each meeting chapter of The Bible was read for guidance before all those at the meeting. These buildings, if they survive, are often ornate and may be shaped as a hexagon to allow all the monks to have a seat on the benches that lined the walls. Abbots ...
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Large room in a cathedral or monastery where the chapter (governing body) met to discuss and decide on matters concerning the religious community.
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A meeting place for the chapter or governing body of a monastery or a cathedral.
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Originally a chapter house was a room in a monastery where monks assembled daily to hear read a chapter from the Rule of their Order, and to transact communal business. Later canons and secular clergy built chapter houses. Early chapter houses were low, rectangular, stone-vaulted buildings built on the east of the cloister below the dormitory. In t...
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A building attached to the monastery in which the monks met to discuss the affairs of the monastery.
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a building attached to or a hall forming part of a cathedral or monastery, used as a meeting place for the chapter. · a building used by a chapter of a society, fraternity, sorority, etc.
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