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Zermatt - St Peter's ('The English Church')
ICS Seasonal Chaplaincy

Where:
The church is just off the main street behind the Snow and Alpine Centre.

When:
Winter: Christmas to Easter Sundays 20 December to 4 April 10:00 and 18:30 Thursdays 8 January to 1 April: Open House at the church 18:00 - 19.00

Summer: Sundays 7 June to 20 September 2009: 10.00 and 18.30 Thursdays 4 June to 17 September 2009: Informal service 17.30

Special services and events:
Christmas Eve (24 December): Carol Services 17.00 and 18.45, HC 23.00
Christmas Day: 10.00
Good Friday: 18.30

Contact details:
  Tel: +41 27 – 967 5566 during Summer or Winter, otherwise ICS.

Supporting ICS’s outreach in Zermatt
If you would like to support our work at the famous ‘English Church’, you can become a Friend of St Peter’s (Zermatt) online. Your support will help us maintain this important historic building, and enable the outreach. We will send you information about ICS’s work regularly, and news of the work in Zermatt.

Alpine Club of Great Britain: 150th anniversary service in St. Peter’s, Zermatt
ICS was delighted to organise this special service for the Club on Sunday 24 June 2007, many of whose past members have worshipped at the Church whilst in Zermatt. Some too are buried there, as several gravestones and plaques mark. The church too has an historic link with the climbing fraternity – one of Edward’s Whymper’s climbing party (Charles Hudson) who died on the descent after the successful British ascent is buried under the communion table. For more information about the Club click here The preacher at the service was Brian Underwood – for a copy of his sermon click here.