About Cleveland Clinic, Gallagher Family Chapel · Cleveland, Ohio
The Catherine T. and John E. Gallagher Family Chapel is a non-parochial Catholic chapel located on the first floor of Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Tower (Q Building) on the hospital's main campus in Cleveland, Ohio. Operated by Cleveland Clinic's Center for Spiritual Care, it serves patients, families, visitors, and staff as a quiet place for prayer, meditation, and reflection, and is the site of a daily noon Catholic Mass five days a week. The chapel shares its first-floor wing with a separate Muslim Prayer Room (the Sheikh Maktoum Prayer Room), while the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Jewish Chapel sits in the adjacent H Building.
- Patron
- Catherine T. and John E. Gallagher (namesakes of the chapel)
- Diocese
- Diocese of Cleveland
Why belong here
The Gallagher Family Chapel is best understood as a hospital ministry chapel rather than a parish, and is the spiritual anchor of Cleveland Clinic's main campus. Whether you are admitted as a patient, visiting a loved one, or working a long shift, you can step into the Glickman Tower chapel to pray, sit in silence, drop a petition in the prayer-request binder (which a chaplain prays over daily), or join a noon weekday Catholic Mass. The 24/7 Cleveland Clinic Spiritual Care team — clinically trained chaplains from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions — is just an internal page or a phone call away.
Mass times at Cleveland Clinic, Gallagher Family Chapel
Weekly Mass schedule
About the Gallagher Family Chapel
The Catherine T. and John E. Gallagher Family Chapel is the principal Catholic prayer space on Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus. Tucked into the first floor of the Glickman Tower (Q Building), next to the Q elevators and across the hall from the Sheikh Maktoum Muslim Prayer Room, it offers a peaceful setting for patients, families, and staff to pause, pray, and reflect in the middle of a hospital day. The chapel and its adjacent worship spaces are served by Cleveland Clinic's Center for Spiritual Care, whose clinically trained chaplains represent Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions and are available 24/7.
- Full name: The Catherine T. and John E. Gallagher Family Chapel
- Location: Glickman Tower (Q Building), first floor, main campus
- Operator: Cleveland Clinic Center for Spiritual Care
Worship Schedule
Catholic Mass is celebrated at noon five days a week in the Meditation Chapel (Q1-102), the room that adjoins the Gallagher Family Chapel proper. The wider weekly schedule weaves together Catholic Mass with Protestant-style ecumenical services, a dedicated silent-meditation sit, and an interfaith 'Rest and Renewal' gathering.
- Ecumenical Worship — Sunday 11:00 a.m.
- Catholic Mass — Sunday 12:00 p.m.
- Catholic Mass — Monday 12:00 p.m.
- Silent Meditation — Monday 1:00 p.m.
- Catholic Mass — Tuesday 12:00 p.m.
- Ecumenical Worship — Wednesday 12:00 p.m.
- Catholic Mass — Thursday 12:00 p.m.
- Rest and Renewal (interfaith) — Friday 10:30 a.m.
- Catholic Mass — Friday 12:00 p.m.
- Communal Muslim prayer — Friday 12:45 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. (Muslim Prayer Room)
Other Places of Worship on Main Campus
Main Campus houses three dedicated worship spaces in addition to the Gallagher Family Chapel, reflecting Cleveland Clinic's commitment to interfaith spiritual care. Catholic Mass is held in the Meditation Chapel (Q1-102) within the Glickman Tower chapel complex.
- Jewish Chapel — H Building, first floor (H1-270A), behind the Starbucks; sponsored by the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation; code posted on the door in Hebrew numerals
- Muslim Prayer Room — Sheikh Maktoum Prayer Room, Glickman Tower, first floor, across from the chapel; open at all times with an adjoining women's prayer area
- Meditation Chapel (Q1-102) — within the Gallagher Family Chapel complex, used for the daily noon Catholic Mass and other scheduled services
Spiritual Care Team & Chaplaincy
Spiritual Care at Cleveland Clinic is staffed by clinically trained chaplains who are part of the health-care team and whose services are free of charge. They are grounded in many religious traditions and are trained to support people of all faiths — or none. They work alongside holistic nurses and family liaisons to offer prayer, meditation, spiritual reading, relaxation techniques, healing touch, aromatherapy, yoga, and guided imagery. A visit from your own priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam can be arranged through the office.
- Telephone: 216.444.2518
- Fax: 216.636.0614
- Pager: 22956
- Email: [email protected]
- Priests (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox), pastors (Protestant and Non-denominational), rabbis, and imams available on request
Healing Services & Code Lavender
Healing Services is the integrative therapies arm of Spiritual Care, pairing chaplains with holistic nurses and manual therapists to provide non-pharmacological relief for pain, anxiety, and general unease. Modalities include healing touch, Reiki, guided imagery, and more. Code Lavender is the department's rapid-response program: within 30 minutes of a call, a personalized holistic-care team can support a patient, family, or staff member in crisis, with follow-up services offered for 72 hours.
- Healing Services referral line: 216.445.9543
- Code Lavender: rapid-response support within 30 minutes; follow-up for 72 hours
Prayer Requests & Devotional Aids
A three-ring binder of prayer requests sits in the chapel near the Q elevators. Anyone — patient, visitor, or staff member — is invited to write a petition; a chaplain includes these requests in daily prayers. The Spiritual Care team also lends religious texts and devotional items on request.
- Prayer-request binder located in the chapel, near the Q elevators
- Bibles, Qur'ans, 'Prayers for Comfort and Healing'
- Other religious texts from various faith traditions
- Daily devotional booklets
- Rosaries, novenas, electric Shabbat candles
- Pillows for sitting meditation or prayer
Contact & Hours
The Spiritual Care Office is on the first floor of the Glickman Tower (Q Building) at Cleveland Clinic's main campus, with chapel entry by the Q elevators. Routine requests are handled weekdays; chaplains are on call around the clock for emergencies.
- Address: Spiritual Care Office, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave / Q1-3, Cleveland, Ohio 44195
- Phone: 216.444.2518 (from inside the hospital: ext. 42518)
- After-hours pager: 22956 (ask your nurse to page, or call 216.444.2518 from outside)
- Email: [email protected]
- Routine hours: weekdays (8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.); 24/7 on-call coverage
Diocese of Cleveland — Jurisdictional Context
Cleveland sits within the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, erected by Pope Pius IX on April 23, 1847 from territory taken from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The diocese covers eight counties of Northeast Ohio — Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit, and Wayne — and its mother church is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland. The current bishop is Edward C. Malesic, appointed by Pope Francis in 2023. Catholic chaplaincy at Cleveland Clinic, including the Gallagher Family Chapel, falls under the diocese's pastoral care for the sick.
- Diocese: Diocese of Cleveland (Latin: Dioecesis Clevelandensis)
- Current bishop: Edward C. Malesic (appointed 2023)
- Cathedral: Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland
- Territory: Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit and Wayne counties