The Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline construction is underway in Lebanon County, but a quaint chapel won’t go down without a fight.

An order of Catholic nuns, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, have built an open-air chapel in Columbia, Pennsylvania. The small chapel was erected to block the path of the impending natural gas pipeline.

On July 9, over 300 members of the community gathered in the cornfield chapel.

The chapel is more than an outdoor sanctuary to gather for prayer, it is a symbol of protest and opposition. The nuns consider the pipeline project a violation of their beliefs and environmental values. The nuns regard the Earth as sacred and hope the wooden alter will draw people to prayer and reflection on holy uses for land.

The Atlantic Sunrise pipeline is a project of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams Partners and will cut across 183 miles of Pennsylvania, including straight through the nun's cornfield chapel. The nuns hope the chapel will stall construction of the $3 billion project.

At this time, the company has authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and could potentially seize private citizens' property via eminent domain for the pipeline route.

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