While most major airports have chapels — nondenominational places where one can go and be alone with one’s thoughts — some smaller airports are still catching up.
TF Green airport, which considers itself Boston’s second airport, though it’s about 45 minutes away from downtown in Providence, Rhode Island, has just opened what it calls its “Hope Reflection Room.” It’s been in the works for some eight years, spearheaded by the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.
One of the room’s spokespeople is Barbara Caniglia, who remembers a few years ago that when her mother died, she tried to find a quiet corner in the baggage area at Green where she should could tell her family members, according to Boston.com.
The room came to fruition after a recent expansion at the airport. And it is strictly nondenominational: The only suggestion of a higher power in the room is a model of a globe cradled in a large hand.