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The Chapel of the Snows is a non-denominational Christian church located at the United States' McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica and is one of eight churches on Antarctica. It was built in 1956 from scrap materials, and this one burned down in 1978, but it was rebuilt ten years later.
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows [1] (Spanish: Capilla de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves) [2] is the name given to a chapel excavated in a cave in the ice near the Belgrano II base [3] in the territory it claims as part of Argentine Antarctica. It is one of eight churches on Antarctica.
There exist a number of Antarctic churches, including both Christian churches on Antarctica proper and those that were built south of the Antarctic Convergence.According to the 6th article of the Antarctic Treaty, Antarctica is defined politically as all land and ice shelves south of the 60th parallel, while the nearest natural boundary is the Antarctic Convergence.
Dug in the nearby ice, Belgrano II's Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows is the world's southernmost Christian church—in fact, it's the southernmost worship place of any religion. The general tasks of the base personnel are primarily of scientific research, survey and exploration, also providing support for foreign scientific efforts.
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Pages in category "Roman Catholic chapels in Antarctica" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows (Belgrano II ...
The St. Ivan Rilski Chapel, a Bulgarian Orthodox chapel at St. Kliment Ohridski Base, South Shetland Islands was built in 2003 and is the first Eastern Orthodox edifice in Antarctica, and was the southernmost Eastern Orthodox building of worship in the world till 2011 when St Volodymyr (Vladimir the Great) Chapel at Ukrainian Vernadsky Research ...