Findeln chapel "Jakobus der Ältere"
Late-seventeenth-century hamlet chapel holding a rare early-sixteenth-century Gothic winged altarpiece.
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This guide to the Findeln chapel of Saint James the Elder, high above Zermatt, follows a late Gothic winged altarpiece made for the village's parish church in the early fifteen hundreds, and the shift in taste that left it without a home. It also visits the wooden prayer house up here, a bishop's visit in seventeen sixty-five, and the farming families who once grew rye on these slopes. Stand facing the altar, with the carved stone door arch behind you.
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