Meditation and prayer space opens on Utah’s State’s Logan campus

A new room at Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center will offer those on campus a space for meditation and prayer.

Located across the hall from the Inclusion Center and next to the International Student Council at the school's Logan campus, the “reflection room” is open every day from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The room was designed to provide inclusivity; it’s filled with windows, cushions and a variety of prayer rugs.

“It’s a space that gives a person a real sense of privacy,” said Anthony Mesler, a participant in the school’s Interfaith Initiative.

The room, which opened on Oct. 28, has been in the works since the initial startup of the Interfaith Initiative in 2014. Founder Bonnie Glass-Coffin saw it as a way to help accommodate the diversity of spiritual beliefs on campus. She wanted a safe space where anyone could come.

The first such space, which opened In 2016, was a one-person reflection room in the Military Science building.

“Literally, it was a broom closet before it was so graciously offered to us,” Glass-Coffin said. “It really wasn’t big enough to have a chair.”

Glass-Coffin said the new space is more accessible for its users, who are mostly international students — and that helps fulfill a goal that student body president Lucas Stevens has for his school.   

“The ‘Aggie Family’ brand – those words are a reflection of the inclusive and friendly culture we generally have among the student body,” Stevens said. “It means that we all have a shared experience at Utah State University that unites us. It means really, that we’re all in this together.”