New Bedford, Massachusetts: Moby-Dick Movie Whalers' Pulpit
After the 1956 movie of Herman Melville's book, tourists visiting the "Whalemen's Chapel" expected to see the exaggerated ship's bow pulpit... so this one was built in 1961.
Seamen's Bethel
- Address:
- 15 Johnny Cake HIll, New Bedford, MA
- Directions:
- Union St. and Water St.
- Hours:
- May-Oct 10 am - 5 pm, Columbus Day-Apr M-F 11-1, Sa 10-5, Su 1-5. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 508-992-3295
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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Moby-Dick Movie Whalers Pulpit Tried to visit the chapel [and see the pulpit shaped like a ship's prow] at about noon on a Friday, but it was closed.
[Vince, 02/07/2012]Nearby Offbeat Places
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