One often reads in the literature that the simple drystone-built chapels on Islay date from the Norse period. This researcher always felt uncomfortable about that hypothesis, and this thesis explores the possibility that some of the chapels may be pre-Norse. A hypothesi...

Photograph of "wedding of Mr. Jose Da Costa and Miss Alicia Baquiza at the chapel of St. Paul Hospital, February 9, 1929, Manila. First wedding celebrated in hospital chapel. Bride was a student nurse at the hospital - groom a Portuguese business man from Hong Kong." Th...

"St. Paul's Hospital Chapel, June 1933." Photograph of the chapel's altar which is decorated with flowers, candles and religious statuary. On the left side of the photo, a nun kneels in prayer.

Photographic postcard of the exterior view of the "chapelle du seminaire, Sendai, Japan." View from the front left side of the chapel. The entrance to the chapel is on the right side of the photo. A circular window is on the wall above the entrance. Three stairs lead to...

Photograph of "the chapel in the parlor, Jochi Daigaku, Tokyo." In front of the altar are rows of chairs and prie dieu. On the altar itself are candlesticks and a tabernacle covered with embroidered cloth. Surrounding the altar are potted plants and two religious statue...

Photograph of a the morning catechism in the chapel of Penampang, Borneo. View of the interior of the chapel looking toward the altar. Boys fill the pews that line both sides of the aisle in the middle of the chapel. Two people are standing in the aisle and two more are...

Photograph of a large group of people standing outside a chapel in Borneo. The chapel is on the top of a small hill on the left side of the photo. People are standing around the chapel and on the slope of the hill.

Photographic postcard of the altar of a chapel in Hokkaido, Japan. Two steps lead to the platform where the altar sits. A vase of flowers is unter the altar. A tabernacle is on top of the altar with three candels on either side. There is a statue on both sides of the ta...

Los grupos otomíes asentados en el semidesierto queretano comparten prácticas culturales que al ser reproducidas periódicamente permiten la cohesión de la comunidad reforzando los vínculos sociales a través de diferentes manifestaciones. Su historia, en la que intervini...