Capel Tabor, a 1904 Congregationalist chapel on Holyhead Mountain in Anglesey sold in March 2024, could become two-bedroom luxury holiday accommodation under plans that face extra checks because of the area’s environmental protections.

Capel Wesley, a former Methodist chapel in Gwyddelwern, Denbighshire, said to be over 200 years old and last used as a vestry and store, could become a luxury holiday let under plans promising minimal external changes.

Quebec City’s Wesley Temple, built in 1848 as a Methodist church and later an institute library, reopened in 2015 as the Maison de la littérature public library, which staff say draws visitors with its heritage.

The Latter-day Saints listed their earthquake-damaged 1926 Wells Ward chapel in Salt Lake City for $1.6 million on condition that the buyer demolish it, drawing objections from preservationists and a councillor.

As the Anglican Diocese of the Northern Territory sold St Mary’s Hostel in Alice Springs, Stolen Generations survivors asked for the chapel, a memorial and 10 per cent of the proceeds.

Doncaster’s Grade II listed 1868 Primitive Methodist Chapel on Balby Road, a stripped shell with permission for 10 flats and a four-storey extension, went to auction in July 2022 with a £136,500-plus guide.

The Philippine Court of Appeals affirmed Catholic Church ownership of 7,163 square metres in Aklan, where a chapel has stood since 1903 and a group allowed to build temporary homes in 1990 refused to leave.

Hong Kong’s Methodist International Church worships in Wesleyan House, a 21-storey tower on an 800-square-metre plot with a worship hall, offices, staff housing and a chapel on the top floor.

First Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, which once drew 400 to 500 worshippers, sold its 1950s sanctuary to a Hispanic Pentecostal congregation and moved into a nursing home chapel as attendance fell to about 40.