An Italian Chapel in the Orkney Islands

This post is just a very brief follow-up on one we posted exactly a month ago, which showed pictures of a chapel built by Italian POWs in the British colony of Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) during World War II. A different friend happened to recently another such chapel built on the island of Lamb Holm one of the Orkney islands off the northern coast of Scotland. This chapel was built between 1943 and 1945, after a group of 550 Italian soldiers were captured by the British during the North African campaign, and sent to the island as prisoners for the duration. My friend who visited it informs me that Mass is still said there once a month by the parish priest of Orkney; the chapel is under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Aberdeen. 

Most of the painting of the interior was done by a single man, a fellow named Domenico Chiochetti, who hailed from a little town called Moena in the northern region of the Trento Alto-Adige. Mr Chiochetti returned to the island in 1960 to work on the restoration of the chapel, and again in 1964.
 

Outside stands a monument to the prisoners who lived and worshipped here, with a figure of St George, undoubtedly chosen as something of a tribute to their British hosts.