Many of the busiest airports in the country have something in common beyond flight delays and lost baggage, something that speaks to the less physical side of air travel.
According to the Pew Research Center, 18 of the 30 major airports in the United States have some sort of chapel for religious services, the details of which are shown in this graphic by Pew:
And Christianity isn't the only religion represented. Three airports provide space for Jewish worship, and seven do the same for Muslims.
However, as the Deseret News' own Mark Kellner pointed out last year, and as Pew's graphic also shows, when it comes to airport worship there seems to be an East/West divide.
The lack of both chaplains and chapels in airports in the Western states, Kellner wrote, "stands in sharp contrast to larger metropolitan airports in the East, such as New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport outside of the nation's capital, each of which have a variety of chaplaincy services available."
You can read the rest of Kellner's article here.
JJ Feinauer is a writer for Deseret News National Email: jfeinauer@deseretdigital.com, Twitter: jjfeinauer.