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\nIf you saw the “Lost” finale, you couldn’t miss the religious overtones — or the setting. <\/p>\n

Now CNS<\/a> is revealing where it was filmed: <\/p>\n

\nThe gateway to heaven is through the chapel doors at Sacred Hearts Academy in Honolulu. Or so one could argue after watching the series finale of the ABC-TV show “Lost” in late May. Several key scenes in the last episode were shot at the all-girls Catholic school.<\/p>\n

The finale’s penultimate scene showed the major characters from the TV show’s six seasons reuniting after their deaths in a church before “moving on” to another life, as character Christian Shephard called it in the episode, named “The End.”<\/p>\n

It is Shephard who opens the main church doors, guarded on each side by an angel statue. Through the doors comes a blazing stream of light that fills the church and engulfs all of the waiting characters.<\/p>\n

Several other scenes in the episode showed a coffin arriving at the front of the school grounds, characters talking in a lunch pavilion area outside the chapel, and Shephard and his son, Jack, talking in an office just outside the church.<\/p>\n

Despite an attempt to make the scenes seem nondenominational, with Christian and Jack Shephard talking in an office filled with world religious symbols and a multi-faith stained-glass window, many TV critics and fans have interpreted the church to be a sort of purgatory and all of the characters as moving on to heaven, a very Christian ending to “Lost.”<\/p>\n

Sacred Hearts Academy has a few “Lost” fans on its faculty and staff, who never missed an episode and were thrilled to see their school featured so prominently in the “Lost” finale.<\/p>\n

“When I watched it, I was laughing,” said Toni Normand, director of special programs. “I called my husband in and said, ‘Heaven is right outside of the chapel lanai!'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read on<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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