St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg

The Chapel of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic church located in Sumvitg, Surselva Region, canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. After a 1984 avalanche destroyed a Baroque chapel on the same site, the Disentis Abbey decided to build a new chapel.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: church
Also known as: “St. Benedict’s Chapel”
Address: Via sur Val 5, S. Benedetg, 7174

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ruin of St. Benedict’s Chapel and Baselgia catolic S. Gion Battesta.

Ruin of St. Benedict’s Chapel

Ruins

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Ruin of St. Benedict’s Chapel is a ruins, which is situated 160 metres southwest of St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg.

Baselgia catolic S. Gion Battesta

Church

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Baselgia catolic S. Gion Battesta is a church, which is situated 740 metres south of St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg.

Sumvitg-Cumpadials railway station

Railway station

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Sumvitg-Cumpadials railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Sumvitg, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm gauge Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér line of the Rhaetian Railway. Sumvitg-Cumpadials railway station is situated 1¼ km southwest of St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rabius and Cumpadials.

Rabius

Village

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Rabius is the largest village in the municipality of Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a station on the Disentis - Reichenau line of the Rhaetian Railway.

Cumpadials

Village

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Cumpadials is the smallest of the four villages in the municipality of Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a station on the Disentis - Reichenau line of the Rhätische Bahn railway.

Trun

Village

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Trun is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun. Trun is situated 4 km east of St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg.

St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg

Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Sumvitg, Surselva Region, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

46.73484° or 46° 44′ 5″ north

Longitude

8.93903° or 8° 56′ 21″ east

Inception

1988

Open location code

8FRCPWMQ+WJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 286879880

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q1034723

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In Other Languages

From German to Spanish—“St Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg” goes by many names.

German: “Caplutta Sogn Benedetg”
German: “Kapelle des St. Benedikt”
Italian: “Cappella di San Benedetto (Sumvitg)”
Italian: “Cappella di San Benedetto”
Romansh: “Caplutta Sogn Benedetg”
Spanish: “Capilla de San Benito (Sumvitg)”
Spanish: “Capilla de San Benito”

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