St. Mary's Catholic Church
Alexandria, Minnesota

The worship space of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria provides seating for 1500. It was designed giving careful attention to the integration of room acoustics, technology, and architecture.

The acoustical environment of the space was designed in keeping with more traditional liturgical values. The desired acoustical "liveness" of the space presented a challenge for the sound systems designers, so close coordination between the architect and the acoustic and sound system designers was implemented early in the building design phases.

The result is successful architectural integration of the elements necessary to provide excellent acoustical enhancement of music while exhibiting good speech intelligibility.