The world’s smallest church is in Uganda, Nebbi district. Bethel Chapel seats at jaw-dropping beautiful rolling hills of Biku, in Erussi subcounty in Nebbi district West of the Nile in Northern Uganda. 

Bethel Chapel ranks firster than the smallest church recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records found on the Niagara River in Canada which contains six people.

Around this church are nine prayer points which allow people to pray, praise and meditate on the word of God.

Bethel Chapel accommodates three people including the priest. It was built around 1996 by Korean Pastor Song with the help of retired Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, the place is managed by the Anglican Church of Uganda.

This place is BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING and RELAXING. This small chapel consumed 79 bags of cement and it was constructed to last at least 500 years before the weakening of the foundation.

This chapel was built with a mission to help God’s believers have a special interaction with God once they reach the hill and to have a very personal service. The magnificent but tiny building is built of stones with a height of 8ft and a width of 2.5 meters.

Some visitors come for spiritual interaction with God while others come for Spiritual tourism. If you love Spiritual tourism, then visiting Nebbi district is the best choice for you to catch a glimpse of the exceptional Bethel church.

Features of Bethel Church;

The chapel is surrounded by 10 prayer points; Secondly, is a Lilliputian building grafted in memory of Jesus Christ. The building has 12 windows in its Western and Eastern side representing the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ.

Prayer point number 3 was constructed with a shape of the map of Africa and has two entrances. This point features 10 windows symbolizing 10 commandments of God on mount Sinai.

This is a none- denominational prayer palace, even Moslems and people from other faiths come and pray here.

Prayer point number 4 is made in form of a heart reflecting Jesus’s love for the world. It has a cross that was made of 33 stones to signify 33 years of Jesus on earth.

Prayer point number 5 is crafted in the shape of an arrow head to symbolize the youths speed. At this point you witness 66 windows representing 66 books of the bible. 39 windows at the back reflecting 39 books of the old testament and 27 windows reflecting 27 books of the New Testament.

This point has 3 doors fashioned in form of a standing man representing those who are well equipped with the word of God

Prayer point number 6 is constructed in an alter shape which is a living testimony that church is a living offering to Christ’s mission while the rough stones on the cross justify that Christians are living stones.

Prayer point number 7 was constructed in a globe shape at the back of a towering rock with an open ended cave at its base. For one to pray from here is to crawl from one end to another to have a glimpse of Christ’s suffering. Undertaking this five-minutes crawl through the cave’s darkness and experience a terrifying thought that the cave may collapse and burry you underneath.

Prayer point 8 brings you to the world’s smallest church itself. This is the Bethel Chapel that has 12 windows at its entrance representing the 12 stones on Aaron’s breast plate signifying the 12 tribes of all the disciples.

The church sealing 7 beams that are used to demonstrate the 7 colours of the rainbow. The rainbow in the bible signifies God’s covenant never to destroy the world with floods again.

The Eastern window on the chapel provides the views of the cross that is placed on top giving Christians an opportunity to always look up to Jesus

The midpoint is set purposely for spiritual healing for people and the church whereby persons who come to the site meet God in a unique way, get healed, get vison for the future and to become bold soldiers of the gospel.