The Italian Chapel interior decoration Catholic chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland

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The Italian Chapel is a highly ornate Catholic chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland. It was built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II, 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. It was not completed until after the end of the war, and was restored in the 1960s and again in the 1990s. It is now a popular tourist attraction, and a category A listed building

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Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland
Photo credit: © Peter Lopeman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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