Chapel vs. Chappel — What's the Difference?

A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several senses.

A place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church.

A place of worship in an institution, such as a prison, college, or hospital.

A recess or room in a church set apart for special or small services.

A place of worship for those not belonging to an established church.

The services held at a chapel

(Music) A choir or orchestra connected with a place of worship at a royal court.

A funeral home.

A room in a funeral home used for conducting funeral services.

A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.

A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

(UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.

A printing office.

A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

A subordinate place of worship

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

A place of worship that has its own altar

A service conducted in a chapel;