Italian Chapel
| Italian Chapel | |
| Kyrka | |
 Italian Chapel | |
| Land |  Storbritannien |
|---|---|
| Ort | Lamb Holm |
| Koordinater | 58°53′23.6″N 2°53′22.3″V / 58.889889°N 2.889528°V |
| Invigd | 1943 |
| Geonames | 7627340 |
Italian Chapel är ett kapell på Lamb Holm i Orkneyöarna, Skottland som byggdes av italienska krigsfångar från strider i Afrika under andra världskriget.[1] Fångarna stannade på ön mellan 1942 och 1945 för att hjälpa till vid byggandet av Churchill Barriers.
Kapellet byggdes av två Nissenbaracker vars kortsidor sammanfogades. De täcktes invändigt med gipsskivor som dekorerades av Domenico Chiochetti från Moena, som stannade kvar på ön för att bygga klart kapellet även om de andra fångarna släpptes strax efter krigets slut. Han avled år 1999 efter att ha besökt sitt livsverk flera gånger.[1] Frescomålningarna renoverades år 2015 av den italienska konservatorn Antonella Papa från Rom.[2]
Altaret och delar av fasaden är av betong.
Idag är kapellet en populär turistattraktion och det kommer över 100 000 turister hit varje år.
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- ^ [a b] ”The Italian Chapel” (på engelska). https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/eastmainland/italianchapel/. Läst 3 november 2021.
- ^ ”Italian artist to restore Orkney Italian Chapel frescos” (på engelska). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-32202900. Läst 3 november 2021.
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Författare/Upphovsman: Gregory J Kingsley, Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
Metalwork adorns the interior of the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm Island. This was crafted entirely from scrap wrought iron salvaged during the construction of the Churchill Barriers in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands by World War II Italian prisoners of war.
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Författare/Upphovsman: John Haslam from Dornoch, Scotland, Licens: CC BY 2.0
The Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland, was built by Italian prisoners of war captured in Africa during World War II. The prisoners were stationed on the island between 1942 and 1945 to help in construction of the Churchill Barriers at Scapa Flow.
The chapel was constructed from two Nissen huts joined end-to-end. The corrugated interior was then covered with plasterboard and the altar and altar rail were constructed from concrete left over from work on the barriers.
Most of the interior decoration was done by Domenico Chiocchetti, a POW from Moena, who remained on the island to finish the chapel even when his fellow prisoners were released shortly before the end of the war.
In 1958 the Chapel Preservation Committee was set up by a group of Orcadians and in 1960 Chiocchetti returned to the chapel to assist in the restoration. He returned again in 1964 but was too ill to travel when some of the other prisoners returned in 1992 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their arrival on the island. He died in 1999.
Today the chapel remains a popular tourist attraction, receiving over 100,000 visitors every year. It has become one of the most well-known and moving symbols of reconciliation in the British Isles.
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