Thank you for your interest in booking the chapel for a service, either your special day, or to honour and remember a loved one.

The chapel is not available for meetings, workshops, conferences, speakers, musicals, recitals, plays, religious shows, or external church services. It is a space for prayer and worship, serving the students and campus community of the University of Victoria.

The chapel is also available to the public to be booked for weddings, funerals/memorials, and baptisms/christenings.

Please note that the chapel is open for bookings for weddings on Saturdays and Sundays only, as the chapel is booked on weekdays by programmes/services organised by the UVic Multifaith Services Chaplains for the campus community. Exceptions may be given to funerals/memorials, depending on the availability of the chapel.

No food or beverages are permitted in or around the Chapel.
Requests to bring personally catered or prepared food/drinks will not be entertained.

See "Food and Beverages".

CLICK HERE to check chapel availability > ONLINE CHAPEL CALENDAR <

< Online Chapel Booking Form >

Capacity for the main hall:
Maximum seating is 130 people.

Booking Times:

Chapel bookings are available to the public for a two-hour slot:
10am to 12noon, 12nn to 2pm, 2pm to 4pm, and 4pm to 6pm.

Suggested commencement times for the above two-hour slots are:
11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm.

For example, for a 1:00 pm ceremony, the Chapel (including adjacent lawn areas) will be rented to you from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, allowing one-hour for preparation, decorating and guest arrivals.

Requests to set-up before your allotted time will not be entertained.

The ceremony, photo sessions (including lawn photos), guests, and decorations must be completed and cleared by the end of your booking. Chapel Attendants are not responsible or liable for the client’s set up or take down of decorations.

$350.00. (For the 2-hour booking, includes HST.)
$600.00 (For two slots of 2-hours to be booked.)

An half-hour rehearsal is included in the price, and is normally booked to be scheduled to occur a day before the event. Please consult the online calendar for chapel availability.

Payments must be received within two weeks of submitting the Online Chapel Booking Form.

Payment is made online.
The link is available on the Thank You webpage, after you have submitted your online booking form.

If you have already submitted your booking form and are just making your payment(s), click here.

Cancellation Policy:
Thirty (30) days' notice must be given in order to receive a partial refund.

The cancellation fee is:
* $70 for the two-hour slot.
* $120 for a four-hour slot.

No food or beverages are permitted in or around the Chapel.
Requests to bring personally catered or prepared food/drinks will not be entertained.

Catering and hosting a reception are available through the following:

UVic Catering Services:
Contact person Daphne Andrews: dandrews@uvic.ca (ph: 250.721.8433)
to arrange your reception with UVic Catering Services.
Function rooms are available at UVic Catering.

University Club of Victoria:
Debra Koski (Office Manager) ph: 250.721.7935

< Only for those who have booked the chapel for memorial/celebration of life services, or after scattering the ashes of your loved-one >

Please click here to submit the name of your loved one to be entered into our Book of Remembrance.

> Click here to Donate <

Please engage your own minister or marriage commissioner to perform the wedding service.

Multifaith Services Chaplains, Rev. Jennifer Geddes at jgeddes@uvic.ca
or Rev. Henri Lock at hlock@uvic.ca, are also available to officiate.

A list of Marriage Commissioners in Victoria is available on-line at: http://www.vs.gov.bc.ca/marriage/.

Our Chapel Attendant will be at your service to open doors, provide general assistance and oversee the building during your ceremony.

If you have a rehearsal booked, he/she will be there to answer any questions about the building and note details about your service.

Chapel Attendants are not responsible, nor liable, for the setup or takedown of your decorations.

The Chapel Attendant does not run the CD player or iPod for weddings or memorials/funerals.
Please engage one of your friends to run it for you on your wedding day.

Ceremonies may be held on the front or back lawn areas.
Chairs, anchored tents or furniture, however, cannot be placed on the grass.

Only stand-up ceremonies will be accommodated.
(Please note: the Chapel must be booked in order to use the lawn area.)

You are welcome to use our digital piano (full-sized with weighted keys).

If you need to hire a piano player or wish to employ student musicians,
please inquire at our UVic School of Music, 250.721.7903.

A CD-deck player and sound system are available if your music is on CD.
Do bring your CD to test your music, if you have a rehearsal booked.

Provisions are also available to connect your iPod, if that is preferred.

Please engage one of your friends to run it for you on your wedding day.
The Chapel Attendant does not run the CD player or iPod for weddings or memorials/funerals.

You are responsible for all decorations required for your ceremony such as flowers and stands, dripless candles and stands, ribbons/bows, etc.

There is a large stationary table at the front, plus 4 small moveable tables for your use.

If you are using candles in your ceremony, we request that you please use proper candle-stands with dishes to collect the melting wax.

We have had problems with wax stains on the altar table and the carpet in the past.
Please help us preserve the chapel in a presentable state so that others may be able to enjoy it as well.

Confetti:
Confetti of any type is not allowed including rice, birdseed or flower petals. We would like to have the Chapel in a presentable condition for the reservation that may follow yours.

University of Victoria Interfaith Chapel,
Parking Lot #6, off Ring Road,
3800 Finnerty Road,
Victoria BC, V8W 2Y2.

(Paid parking in effect including evenings, except for Sundays and statutory holidays)

AISLE: 21 ft. from lobby to door to first row of chairs. Approximately 5 ft. wide.

CHAIRS: 142 chairs total. Usually 130 are set up in rows (6 to 7 rows with 8-9 per side; 10 chairs each side on the back row). CHAIRS ARE NOT TO BE STACKED AND LEFT IN THE MEDITATION ROOM OR ALONG THE CORRIDORS AND HALLWAY.

ARMLESS CHAIRS: (for musicians, stored in the Vestry) 4.

CROSSES: 2 Christian crosses - 1 small (sits on a stand), 1 large (hangs on a pole). Both stored in the Vestry.

PODIA: 2 (also referred to as lecterns) 1 large podium with closed-in bottom, 1 smaller podium with pedestal bottom.

TABLES: 5 - 4 small (18"x36"), 1 large (36"x72", often used as an altar: mostly stays in front).

As part of the Finnerty Gardens, a Garden of Remembrance has been established just south of the chapel.

This garden may be used to scatter ashes under the beautiful flowering shrubs.
If you would like to strew the ashes in the Garden of Remembrance, or would like to erect a memorial stone or bench in the Finnerty Gardens, please contact Manager, Grounds & Environmental Services at 250.721.7606, or email bsly@uvic.ca.

For families who wish to use the Garden for this purpose, please submit this form
[Book of Remembrance Form]
and his/her name will be entered into our Book of Remembrance, displayed in the chapel.

Bequests and donations are welcome.
These will be used for the operating expenses of the chapel and its grounds.

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> Click here for a map of Finnerty Gardens <