This is a beautiful little chapel made from old nissan huts and concrete! During WW1 the Italian Prisoners of War (PoW) were used to create the Churchill barricades (to stop the submarines getting into Scapa Flow) but because the Geneva convention prevents use of POWs for war activities they also built roads across the barricades and said they were building permanent roads for the locals to use!!! (There is always a round these things), the Italians being quite religious wanted somewhere to pray so they used left over concrete and created the front of the chapel and lined the inside with plaster and concrete and painted it to look like it was tiled and had paintings hanging. It is stunning, as with all things Orkney small but beautifully formed and well worth a trip if you are in Orkney.

Photograph of the outside of the Italian Chapel

Photograph of the Italian Chapel inside showing the roof and pulpit area

Photograph of the Italian Chapel detail of pulpit

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