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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.
There are eight churches on Antarctica proper, [1] with another two located south of the Antarctic Convergence. [2] The southernmost of these religious buildings is the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, a Catholic chapel carved out of the ice surrounding the Belgrano II Base, at Bertrab Nunatak. [3]
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.
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 ...
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.
The Erebus Chalice is a silver and gilt chalice gifted to the National Science Foundation in 1987 for use in the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where it is now kept on display during austral summers.
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 ...
Pages in category "Chapels in Antarctica" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Chapel of the Snows; S.