Central Texas Parish Domed Sanctuary And Columbarium Structures
St. John Neumann Catholic Church
Domed Steel-roofed sanctuary and hillside columbarium
West Lake Hills, Texas
Domed Sanctuary
5455 Bee Caves Road
Structural engineering of 72-foot tall steel dome roof for St. John Neumann Catholic Church sanctuary.
Columbarium
5455 Bee Caves Road
Columbarium is an 18th century Latin word for dovecote or dove nest. Today, it is a place where urns holding cremains (ashes) may be inurned (reposed) in individual niches.
St. John Neumann’s Memorial Prayer Garden and Columbarium occupies space that begins at the most eastern edge of the church and meanders to the stone wall that juts at a right angle from the church structure on it’s western edge. You can view this area if you stand at the windows in the narthex of the sanctuary. Immediately below these windows, the niches are designed to become part of the outside wall of the church building.