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What is the Capitol rotunda?

Updated: 8/23/2023
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The Capitol rotunda is the large round section in the center of the Capitol building, below the dome. It connects the House and Senate sides of the Capitol.

A panorama of 19 scenes from American history are painted below the 36 windows of the rotunda. Among many others, there are scenes depicting Columbus' landing in the New World, Pocahontas saving Capt. John Smith, Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, the Battle of Lexington and the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Several sculptures stand in the rotunda, some of political figures such as George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, others of civil rights giants such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and others of American activists, such as a group sculpture of suffragists. Politicians who have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda include Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Edward Everett Dirksen and J. Edgar Hoover. Rosa Parks is one of others who have lain in honor in the rotunda.

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It is the Statue of Freedom (sometimes called the Statue of Armed Freedom), designed by Thomas Crawford and in place atop the Capitol Building since 1863.

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