Italian Chapel 1

Photos taken at Italian Chapel, Lamb Holm last Monday night.

Front view... doesn't it look like a beautiful, fancy building?

If you didn't know, you would hardly believe that from side on, it looks like this...

... being made of 2 nissen huts joined end to end...

Here's the altar...

You would hardly believe that the Italian PoW's that created this chapel used concrete left over from manufacture of The Churchill Barriers (although they weren't allowed to be called "barriers" because the Geneva Convention prohibited the use of prisoner labour to build defensive structures... so they were classed as "causeways" to join the some of the south islands and improve communications), scrap materials lying around, and even corned beef tins to make some of the light fittings!

More photos of it will follow...