Chapels · Scottish Islands
Italian Chapel
Italian Chapel — chapel in the Orkney islands built by Italian prisoners of war.
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Italian Chapel is a chapel in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1945. Heritage designation: category A listed building. Affiliated with Catholicism. Wikidata describes it as: "chapel in the Orkney islands built by Italian prisoners of war". Coordinates: 58.8899°, -2.8896°.
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The Italian Chapel is a highly ornate Catholic chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland. It was built during the Second World War by Italian prisoners of war, who were housed on the previously uninhabited island while they constructed the Churchill Barriers to the east of Scapa Flow. Only the concrete foundations of the other buildings of the prisoner-of-war camp survive. The chapel was not completed until after the end of the war, and was restored in the 1960s and again in the 1990s. It is a popular tourist attraction, and a Category A listed building. It is in the Roman Catholic Parish of Our Lady & St Joseph in Orkney, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen. Mass is held in the chapel on the first Sunday of the summer months (April–September).
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- Coordinates
- 58.8899, -2.8896
- District
- Orkney Islands
- Postcode
- KW17 2SF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
- Established
- 1945
Sources
- wikidata: Q2545493 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Italian Chapel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Italian Chapel - Lamb Holm - Orkney - kingsley - 29-JUN-09.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Italian Chapel?
- Italian Chapel is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.8899°, -2.8896°.
- When was Italian Chapel built?
- Italian Chapel dates to 1945 — the Modern period.
- Is Italian Chapel a listed building?
- Italian Chapel carries the heritage designation "category A listed building" — a protective status under UK heritage law.