Chapel of the Snows

The Chapel of the Snows is a non-denominational Christian chapel in the operated by the United States McMurdo research station in Antarctica. It was built for a very made ​​of ice building in the Argentine Belgrano II station the southernmost religious building in the world. It offered regular Catholic and Protestant services. The Catholic priests are provided by the Archdiocese of Wellington in New Zealand, the Protestant of the Air National Guard of the United States.

The chapel, however, is also open for events and meetings of other denominations, such as the Latter-day Saints, the Bahai, Buddhism, as well as secular communities such as the anonymous alcoholics.

The current chapel was consecrated in 1989 after the previously used buildings in August 1978 one was destroyed by fire.