Question about adoration chapels

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Sometimes I read about adoration chapels, particularly in regard to the USA. Can someone please tell me (an Australian), the meaning of this term.

We do have adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in our parish churches, and also in chapels in Australia, but the term adoration chapel suggests to me a special chapel for adoration, that is apart from the parish church, and that is also set up exclusively for this purpose, or does the term adoration chapel mean a side chapel in a parish church?

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I have been to the following :
  1. A small room for 12 adjacent to the community room of a church.
  2. A small church that is no longer used, as a bigger one was constructed so the smaller one now holds the BLESSED SACRAMENT.
  3. A new small chapel constructed next to the front door of the larger church, but only hold about 32 chairs and a small altar for the BLESSED SACRAMENT.
  4. A small room - like a crying room for babies - in the rear of the church with a separate entrance and a glass wall with a view to the main alter.
  5. The “old” library of a small Catholic Elementary School that was converted into the BLESSED SACRAMENT Chapel for a time.
So, it can be many scenarios.
 
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Sometimes I read about adoration chapels, particularly in regard to the USA. Can someone please tell me (an Australian), the meaning of this term.

We do have adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in our parish churches, and also in chapels in Australia, but the term adoration chapel suggests to me a special chapel for adoration, that is apart from the parish church, and that is also set up exclusively for this purpose, or does the term adoration chapel mean a side chapel in a parish church?

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In the US an adoration chapel is usually in reference to a place reserved for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Of course not always, some just have a tabernacle. These rooms are often set up for perpetual adoration. Often small rooms, they are quiet, with chairs, kneelers, and spiritual books, and rosaries. Of course this is just a generalization. Some might be large, not exclusively used for adoration, etc. All depending on if it was built for that purpose or retrofitted or depending on if the parish does perpetual adoration or not.
 
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