A Greek island has 1,000 private chapels. Families maintain them for faith and community

TINOS, Greece (AP) — More than a thousand chapels dot the Greek island of Tinos . In a rare centuries-old tradition, the mostly simple, room-sized stone structures are painstakingly maintained by the ordinary families that own them.

These private whitewashed chapels with miniature bell towers belong to octogenarians and Generation Z, goat farmers and hotel owners, Orthodox Christians and Catholics who worship daily and de facto atheists.