This isn’t your ordinary chapel — it’s a doghouse of worship.

In St. Johnsbury, Vt., stands Dog Mountain — a 150-acre mountaintop expanse with ponds, fields and trails — the grounds of which are always open for leash-free enjoyment by dogs and their owners. And on these grounds, there’s a white structure with a steeple, where an arched black sign proclaims “CHAPEL” in gold lettering. It may seem like your run-of-the-mill New England church, but step inside and it’s anything but.

Stained-glass windows show images of dogs being petted by human hands, licking scoops of ice cream off cones and facing forward with their tongues hanging out. The edges of wooden pews are carved into the shapes of sitting dogs, and there’s even a doorknob molded in the form of a dog’s head, with “All creatures welcome” etched into its supporting plate. Yes, there’s a doggy door.

Welcome to Dog Chapel, the dog-matic centerpiece of Dog Mountain, built by the late Stephen Huneck, an artist and children’s author, and his late wife, Gwen, meant to celebrate the bond between canine and human, according to Curbed.

Huneck, who has referred to Dog Mountain as “the largest artwork of my life and my most personal,” is known for his 10 books that focus on a Labrador pooch named Sally. Inside the chapel, a carved wood statue of a winged Sally rests on a pedestal. On walls around it, the objective of Dog Chapel is immediately evident.

A number of Post-it notes and photos line the walls — they’re images of deceased dogs, with birth and death dates as well as notes from owners on what they meant to them.

“Dukie, we miss you sneezing on us when we rub your belly,” reads one.

The tributes have come from people all over the globe.

“When you visit the Dog Chapel, you are totally enveloped with messages of love,” Huneck once said. “It is a very moving experience — sad, certainly, but also uplifting — to see how much everyone cherishes his or her dog.”