Chapels built by Italian POW's

by the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war had to be sent to areas with a climate similar to where they were captured.

As a result, the Italians captured in North Africa were often sent to South Africa or Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

Here is a photo of the small Catholic chapel they constructed near Masvingo: from Veteranrhodie's Flickr site/

But I was astonished to run across a photo of a chapel, also built by Italian POW's, that they had built in the Orkney Islands:

of course, these were in the days before the PC liturgists decided to make catholic churches look like the inside of airplane hangers.