Flight 93 chapel may move to larger building

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — The founder of the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel wants to move the small, 100-year-old church into a larger building.

The Rev. Alphonse Mascherino says the small chapel is in poor shape but he wants to preserve it. He says the only way to do that is to physically move the small chapel to a larger piece of land and build a structure over it.

Architect Gary Gorski has been working with Mascherino and believes the plan could work.

Mascherino is having a Sept. 11 commemoration at the chapel Saturday and says he’ll reveal more details of the plan then.

The Daily American of Somerset reports that the chapel has been open since 2002. It is about three miles from the crash site and not associated with the permanent memorial under construction there.